Neera Tanden has been named as the new head of President Biden's Domestic Policy Council, becoming the first Asian American to serve in the role. Tanden, who previously served as senior adviser and staff secretary to Biden, has held policy advising positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations and was the former president of the Center for American Progress. She replaces Susan Rice, who is stepping down as Biden's domestic policy adviser in late May.
Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic adviser and President Biden's staff secretary, has been named as the director of the Domestic Policy Council, replacing Susan Rice as Mr. Biden's top domestic policy adviser. Tanden has been a fixture in Washington for more than two decades as an adviser to President Barack Obama and as the president of the Center for American Progress. She was initially nominated to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget but withdrew from consideration due to lack of support for confirmation in the Senate.
Neera Tanden, a longtime prominent Democratic operative, has been named as the next head of President Joe Biden's domestic policy council, replacing Susan Rice. Tanden has extensive experience in Democratic policy circles, having previously run the Center for American Progress and served as a senior health official in the Obama administration. Her selection is likely to be met with trepidation from Republicans and some Democrats due to her once-combative Twitter account. Stef Feldman, a longtime Biden aide, will replace Tanden in the role of staff secretary.
President Joe Biden announced that his top domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, will be leaving her post next month. Rice, who previously served as President Obama's national security adviser and U.N. ambassador, oversaw a range of executive and legislative actions on health care, policing, gun safety, racial equity, and the $1 trillion infrastructure bill. She was also a key player in the administration's efforts to manage surging migrant numbers at the U.S.-Mexico border. The next person named to the job will focus on implementing policies, given the divided Congress and lower expectations for passing major legislation.
Susan Rice, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, is stepping down from her post, with her last day being May 26. Rice helped craft many of the proposals that formed the core of Biden's Build Back Better agenda and oversaw some of the administration's most polarizing issues, like gun control and migrant policies. A potential replacement could be Neera Tanden, a senior White House adviser. Rice had been privately discussing the possibility of leaving the post since at least November.
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order with over 50 directives to improve access to child care and the work life of caregivers. The order seeks to improve child care for federal workers' offspring, lower costs for families in the Child Care & Development Block Grant program, provide better home-based care for military veterans, and raise pay and benefits for teachers and staff in the Head Start program. However, the directives would be funded out of existing commitments, limiting their impact.
President Biden plans to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to find ways to make child care cheaper and more accessible. The order includes more than 50 directives to nearly every agency to take action on fixing the child care and long-term care system. However, it falls short of the child care goals he set at the beginning of his presidency. The order does not deliver on the goal of $225 billion to fully cover child care for low-income Americans and an additional $200 billion for universal preschool. The president is seeking to make progress on some big promises that have so far gone unfulfilled.
