Washington: Indian-American Neera Tanden shared the inspiring story of her mother who came to America from India with people on Tuesday. Newly elected US President Joe Biden has named Nira Tandon as the new director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. “Like Shyamla, the mother of newly elected Vice President Kamala Harris, my mother Maya was born in India,” Tandon said at Biden’s transfer of power headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. Like millions of generations, she came to America in search of a better life. ” Tandon was born in Bedford, Massachusetts. “I grew up in a middle-class family in a Boston suburb,” he said.
When I was five years old, my parents divorced and my mother had the responsibility of having two children and then she had no job. ” “She had the option of either going back to India where divorce was a stigma and limited opportunities – or fighting for her American dream,” Tandon said. He stopped here. We depended on food stamps to eat. We relied on section 8 (vouchers) to pay the rent, “he said.” He got a job as a travel agent again and then he took a house in Bedford and completed his children’s education, “Tandon said. “I want to thank my mother here today, as well as the country that believed in us.” I am here today because of the ‘social events’. “
If approved by the U.S. Senate, Tandon, 50, would be the first black woman to head the influential White House Office of Management and Budget. Tandon is currently the chief executive of the left-leaning Center for American Progress. She has been a close ally of former US Secretary of State and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Tandon helped the Obama administration pass the Affordable Care Act.
