I've been happy since Biden nominated @neeratanden to be his OMB director & the more I review her work over the past year, the more excited I become. Tanden has been a strong proponent of responding to this crisis by truly expanding the safety net. This is great vision for OMB.

I know I have some kind of rep as a member of Neera Defense twitter & that's prob true! That said, I don't even mean the above statement to be a part of it. I'm just reading everything Tanden has written about an intersectional, climate-oriented New Deal package & I love it

The way Neera has approached this crisis is not just how we can put bandaids on the specific wounds of the pandemic, but to actually respond on a deep, structural level to the fragility this crisis has revealed in how our systems treat people. That's great.

If you want to be inspired too, I would recommend this piece Neera wrote. You might not agree with every proposal, but you will see someone who has bold vision for how we can make our country more equitable & who is decidedly anti-austerity. https://twitter.com/magi_jay/status/1335243644081729538

To add to this, CAP, under Neera, has done really great work that is informed by knowledge of how our solutions to problems too frequently exclude people, especially women, minorities, and disabled people. https://twitter.com/magi_jay/status/1333843294091141120