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President Joe Biden is having a tough time in his first month in office and Democrats are having a tantrum about it.

His pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, has been opposed by Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin as well as every Republican so far on record.

Tanden made her own bed by disparaging several GOP senators, and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, on her Twitter and now she needs senators to vote for her.

In a statement, Sen. Collins said that Tanden’s “past actions” showed her animosity and said that the nominee does not have the “experience nor the temperament” to hold the position.

“Congress has to be able to trust the OMB director to make countless decisions in an impartial manner, carrying out the letter of the law and congressional intent,” Sen. Collins said in a statement. “Neera Tanden has neither the experience nor the temperament to lead this critical agency. Her past actions have demonstrated exactly the kind of animosity that President Biden has pledged to transcend.”

As for Sen. Romney, a spokeswoman for the Utah senator said that he cannot support her nomination due to her divisiveness.

“Senator Romney has been critical of extreme rhetoric from prior nominees, and this is consistent with that position. He believes it’s hard to return to comity and respect with a nominee who has issued a thousand mean tweets,” his press secretary Arielle Mueller said.

This came after a statement by Sen. Manchin of West Virginia who said he opposed Tanden for the position.

“I have carefully reviewed Neera Tanden’s public statements and tweets that were personally directed towards my colleagues on both sides of the aisle from Senator Sanders to Senator McConnell and others. I believe her overtly partisan statements will have a toxic and detrimental impact on the important working relationship between members of Congress and the next director of the Office of Management and Budget,” he said. “For this reason, I cannot support her nomination.”

Naturally Democrats ran to the tried-and-true accusations of sexism and racism.

“There's a double standard going on,” Democrat California Rep. Judy Chu, head of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, said. “Her nomination is very significant for us Asian American and Pacific Islanders. I do believe that this double standard has to do with the fact that she would be a pioneer in that position.”

“We can disagree with her tweets, but in the past, Trump nominees that they've confirmed and supported had much more serious issues and conflicts than just something that was written on Twitter,” Democrat New York Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) said. “This is not just about any one nominee like Neera, or whoever else — it's just about this pattern that is happening and increasingly hard to ignore.”

“Jeff Sessions was so openly racist that even Reagan couldn’t appoint him. Manchin voted to confirm him. Sessions then targeted immigrant children for wide-scale human rights abuses w/ family separation. Yet the 1st Native woman to be Cabinet Sec is where Manchin finds unease?” New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said.

Neera Tanden made her own bed and now Democrats want to do what they do every time, blame sexism and racism. They did not have these qualms when they opposed Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.