Neera Tanden, President-elect Joe Biden's pick for budget director, has deleted over a thousand tweets in anticipation of a tough confirmation vote.
Many of Tanden's deleted posts were critical of Republican senators, whose votes she will likely need for confirmation, as well as prominent conservatives and journalists.
Tanden, who is the CEO of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, would need a majority vote in the Senate to become the head of Biden's Office of Management and Budget, meaning that she is likely to need GOP support.
Tanden's deleted tweets include, for example, multiple posts expressing disapproval of Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist Republican who has been known to vote with Democrats on some issues and is considered a "swing" vote. Yet, she left up a 2018 tweet that calls Collins "pathetic" for supporting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's nomination in the Senate
Tanden's at times inflammatory tweets have created controversy and elicited responses from political figures on both sides of the aisle over the past few years.
Since 2009, when he joined Twitter, President Trump has tweeted 58,700 times. Since 2010, when she joined, Tanden has tweeted 88,600 times. Now, though, she has only 87,500 tweets remaining after the recent deletions.
Tanden, who has been one of the most vocal liberal critics of Trump, deleted content regarding Russia's role in the 2016 election, pushing conspiracy theories that Russian hackers altered the results of the election.
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THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SAID NO GUNS BECAUSE OF POLICE NOW WANT TO DEFUND THE POLICE!!!!
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They don't really care whether the truth gets out, because the public no longer knows what's meant by "the truth."
Well, I mean, no one can tell the difference anymore between what's real and what's fake.
Anyway, the point is, I can tell you all of this, right out in the open, because it doesn't matter who knows about it. They won't know whether to believe it or not.-
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A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.
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Jefferson Smith: You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that . - MR Smith Goes To Washington-
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My oath to support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic has no expiration date!!!
Ten Bears : It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. Outlaw Josey Wales
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