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| The Statement That Has Senators Thinking Twice of Confirming OMB Deputy Director Shalanda Young |
| 2021-03-14 |
| [Townhall] President Joe Biden's original nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, pulled her nomination after it was revealed that she made a number of salacious remarks about Republican lawmakers. The person poised to take Tanden's spot is Shalanda Young, who was originally picked as the nominee for the OMB deputy director position. As it turns out, Young also has a questionable (recent) past. While Young's nomination for the deputy director position originally received little scrutiny and mostly bipartisan support, members of Congress are looking closer into her past. A statement she made on the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funds from being used for abortion, except in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the mother's life, is what caused a number of Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and the Budget Committees to vote against her nomination. According to Young, women need to have access to abortion because it's considered "a matter of economic and racial justice." "The President has spoken in favor of Congress ending the Hyde Amendment as part of his commitment to providing comprehensive health care for all women," Young wrote in her written answer about the Hyde Amendment. "Further, eliminating the Hyde Amendment is a matter of economic and racial justice because it most significantly impacts Medicaid recipients, who are low-income and more likely to be women of color." Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member, Rob Portman (R-OH), previously supported Young's position for deputy director until he learned about her stance on the Hyde Amendment. "This is one where our country is so deeply divided on abortion, where we've been able to come together and decide, at a minimum, let's not tell people with a deep view based on their conscience on this, that they have to pay taxpayer funds for abortion," Portman explained. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Safe legal rare. Not taxpayer-funded. Most Americans will agree on the above formula., |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus Uleng5733 2021-03-14 16:00 |
| #4 I'd vote against anyone that doesn't have a real name. |
| Posted by: CrankyOldYankee 2021-03-14 14:55 |
| #3 The majority of babies aborted in the US are black. Yet the race hustler groups refuse to call it black population control. One pro-life activist, Ryan Bomberg, called the NAACP the National Association for Aborting Colored People. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2021-03-14 12:45 |
| #2 Having access to abortion is one thing. Who pays for this elective procedure is another. |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-03-14 12:18 |
| #1 Going to out myself as a fence sitter here. I definitely believe abortion is a bad thing. I also feel strongly most of the creatures that want one have no business contributing to the gene pool in the first place. Right result from the wrong process? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-03-14 11:59 |