WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden said Indian-American Neera Tanden is a brilliant policy mind with critical practical experience across governments after the formal announcement of her nomination as the Director of Office of Management and Budget at the White House.

The 50-year-old, Tanden, if confirmed by the Senate, will be the first woman of color and first Indian-American to lead the Office of Management and Budget which serves the President of the US in overseeing the implementation of his vision across the Executive Branch. OMB's mission is to assist the President in meeting his policy, budget, management, and regulatory objectives and to fulfill the agency's statutory responsibilities. Tanden's career has focused on pursuing policies designed to support working families, foster broad-based economic growth, and curb inequality. Biden marks his word saying, "She will be in charge of laying out my budget that will help us control the virus, deal with the economic crisis, and build back better. But above all, she believes what I believe - a budget should reflect our values."

In her remarks, Tanden said it is her honor to help shape budgets and programs to keep lifting Americans up, to pull families back from the brink, "to give everybody the fair chance my mother got, and that everyone deserves". She continued, "I believe so strongly that our government is meant to serve all the American people - Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike, all of whom deserve to know that their government has their back." She was a close ally of Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, and helped pass the Affordable Care Act under Barack Obama.

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