“As she started out as a travel agent, Maya may not have ever thought that her daughter would one day be asked to serve in the cabinet of the president of the United States. It is her mother's work ethic and resolve that all of us see in Neera and it's those same qualities that I know will serve her well as our next director of the Office of Management and Budget,” she said. “Maya then found new footing and began working as a travel agent, forging her family's path to the middle class. Determined to succeed, like so many immigrants, Maya put her kids first and, as a single mom, she first relied on food stamps and public housing to make ends meet,” Klobuchar said. “Neera is the daughter of Indian immigrants and grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts, raised by her mom Maya, Neera learned the value of perseverance at a very young age. Senator Amy Klobuchar who introduced her during the hearing also praised her mother Maya. Soon, she was able to buy a home and eventually, she saw her children off to college and beyond,” Tanden said. Within just a few years, my mother found a job and a few years later, she was earning a middle-class salary. I remember using food stamps in the grocery store. “At school, I remember being the only kid in the cafeteria line who used USD 0.10 vouchers from the free and reduced lunch programme. We relied on food stamps to eat, Section 8 vouchers to pay the rent,” she told the Senators. “She (mother) had faith in this country and made the decision, I believe the courageous decision, to stay. Stay in the United States and rely on the social safety net or return to India where she knew her children would face the stigma of divorce,” Tanden told lawmakers during her confirmation hearing. “I owe my presence here to their love and support and to the grit and resilience of my mother, an immigrant from India who was left to make it on her own in America with two young children after her divorce from my father. Her mother Maya and family members were present during her confirmation hearing by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday. Tanden, 50, if confirmed by the Senate, would be the first woman of colour and first Indian-American to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which serves the President of the United States in overseeing the implementation of his vision across the executive branch. Neera Tanden told lawmakers that she spent every day grateful for a nation and a government that had faith in her mother and in her.(Reuters File Photo) Indian-American political consultant Neera Tanden, who has been nominated by President Joe Biden as his budget director, attributed her success to the grit and resilience of her mother, an immigrant from India who was left to make it on her own in America with two young children after divorce.
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