Su faces opposition for overseeing fraud and the slow processing of unemployment benefits as California labor secretary.
this month urging him not to pick her. Signers included Reps. Tom McClintock, Jay Obernolte, Young Kim, Ken Calvert, Darrell Issa and Mike Garcia.
The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus demanded earlier this month that Biden pick Su to replace Walsh, who resigned to become executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association, effective next month.“[T]he inclusion of an AANHPI as a Cabinet Secretary is long overdue,” the caucus said, using an acronym for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Two months after Biden took office — and one month after he tapped Su to be Walsh’s deputy — Sen. Tammy Duckworth threatened to block confirmation of presidential nominees in protest of West Wing aide Jen O’Malley Dillon makingDillon allegedly said Biden’s critics should be satisfied with Vice President Kamala Harris, who was born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father.
Duckworth said that “when I asked about AAPI representation … the first words out of the staff’s mouth was ‘Well, we’re very proud of Vice President Harris’, which is incredibly insulting.”Duckworth later backed down when the White House agreed to appoint an in-house Asian-American liaison officer, Two Asian Americans, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and presidential science adviser Arati Prabhakar, hold cabinet-level positions but are not Senate confirmed.
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