Zients, Rumored to be USTR Pick, Will Stay on at OMB
Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jeffery Zients will stay at the agency until the new director is confirmed, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said March 19. Zients was rumored to be a potential U.S. Trade…
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Representative pick, replacing Ron Kirk. The White House is waiting on Senate confirmation for its OMB director nominee, Sylvia Burwell. “[Zients] has been just an enormously valuable player on the President’s economic team,” Carney said in his daily press briefing. “… the President appreciates his service and his willingness to continue as acting director very much indeed.”