Republicans in the US Senate are threatening to block a prominent nominee to Joe Biden’s cabinet over her “offensive” tweets, a trial of strength that highlights the importance of control of the upper chamber.
Neera Tanden, chosen to lead the White House budget office, has been condemned by politicians on the right over her social media comments but she also faces flak from the left for factional in-fighting on behalf of Hillary Clinton, her mentor.
Ms Tanden, 50, has deleted more than 1,000 tweets in the past month, many of them targeting Republicans. They are already proclaiming her the “sacrificial lamb” of the Biden team, suggesting that there was always going to be a lightning rod for partisan opposition during the process of confirming his