By Katherine Doyle, White House Correspondent | February 15, 2021
Candidate Joe Biden appealed to voters as a deal-minded moderate and experienced Washington hand. While many of the now-president's nominees and appointments so far have been seasoned Beltway pros, others have raised eyebrows.
Here is a list of Biden’s most controversial picks to date.
Kristen Clarke - Biden’s pick to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division apologized last month for past comments on racial superiority and for hosting an event with a professor who espoused anti-Semitic views while a student at Harvard University.............
Neera Tanden - Tanden’s nomination was charged from the start. She would be the first woman of color and the first South Asian person to run the Office of Management and Budget, but years of indelicate social media broadsides have pitted her against Republicans and members of her party...............
Xavier Becerra - Biden’s pick for health and human services secretary has been labeled “a true radical on abortion” by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, one indicator of the opposition he is expected to face appearing before senators as his nomination moves forward............
Wendy Sherman - Sherman, who Biden has selected for the number two position at the State Department, is a veteran of the Obama and Clinton administrations, spending four years as the lead negotiator of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran. Biden has vowed a return to the deal after former President Trump exited midway through his term...........
Anita Dunn - Dunn, a senior adviser to the president, is viewed with trepidation even by Democrats, not only because she claims to bear grudges for the president “like an Irishman.” Others have balked at her assertion that Mao Tse-tung was “one of her favorite philosophers.”.............
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