Meet Shalanda Young, Who Becomes First Black Woman To Lead White House Budget Office

The Senate on Tuesday 15 March confirmed Shalanda Young as the director of the White House Budget office after voting 61-36.

Following the Senate confirmation, the American black woman political advisor became the first-ever black woman to be the head of the White House Budget office.

The historic vote on Tuesday brought a big change in Biden's white house by making Shalanda Young hold the position of director.

The black lady was confirmed to lead the budget office after the agreement between political parties that oppose each other's policies.

Shalanda Young became director after American political consultant Neera Tanden who withdrew her nomination for the post in the month of March 2021.

A majority of key senators announced their opposition to Neera Tanden by stating that her earlier tweets criticized Democrats and Senate Republicans.

With the complete support from the bipartisan Young successfully emerged at the Cabinet-level position and the lack of support for Tanden also helped her to be in the position.

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The new director played a significant role in the implementation of the economic agenda by the administration and in solving various economic issues.

She helped the administration in operating its economic plan which is an effort that has become much more challenging at the time of rising inflation and stopped Democratic legislation on Capitol Hill.

It may be mentioned that the Office of Budget and Management operated with the federal agencies to supervise the implementation of spending different programs approved by Congress.

Shalanda Delores Young is the much-praised political advisor who earlier served in an acting capacity from 25 March last year till 15 March of this year.

Earlier, in 2017 Young became the first black woman who worked as the staff director of the House Appropriations Committee after serving the committee for more than 14 years.

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