Sanders, who was tapped to chair the Senate Budget Committee, is focused on Biden's "American Rescue Plan" for coronavirus relief. When addressing reporters last week, he would not say whether he would move Tanden’s nomination forward before a relief plan is finished. BIDEN'S OMB PICK NEERA TANDEN ANGERS BERNIE SANDERS-ALLIED PROGRESSIVES"I don't know honestly, we're working on it," Sanders said, according to Punchbowl News. In 2019, The New York Times reported that Tanden, years earlier, had punched Faiz Shakir, Sanders' 2020 campaign manager, "in the chest." Tanden told the Times that she "didn't slug him, I pushed him."

Source: Fox News January 26, 2021 13:51 UTC