Schumer Trying to Drum Up Votes for Biden’s Pick to Head Budget Office

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) walks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 12, 2021. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

The Senate’s top Democrat on Sunday said he is attempting to secure enough votes to approve a controversial President Joe Biden nominee.

Biden picked Neera Tanden to head the White House Office of Management and Budget, but Republicans oppose the nomination. They were joined recently by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), putting the nomination in peril.