Shalanda Young
American political advisor
Shalanda Delores Young (born August 29, 1977) is an American political advisor and government official who served as the 43rd director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously worked as the staff director of the United States House Committee on Appropriations.
Early life and education
Shalanda Delores Young was born in Zachary, Louisiana, and raised in Clinton, Louisiana. After graduating from Scotlandville Magnet High School, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Loyola University New Orleans and a Master of Health Administration from Tulane University.
Career
Young moved to Washington, D.C., around 2001, where she became a Presidential Management Fellow with the National Institutes of Health.
For 14 years, Young worked as a staffer for the United States House Committee on Appropriations. In February 2017, she was named staff director of the committee, a position in which she served until her nomination for deputy director of OMB in 2021. As staff director on the committee, Young was involved with creating proposals related to the 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown and the federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Office of Management and Budget
During a hearing concerning her nomination for deputy director of the OMB, she received some praise from Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee, including Lindsey Graham, who said "Everybody who deals with you on our side has nothing but good things to say." The approval of her nomination as deputy director by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee was less bipartisan, with a vote along party lines to advance it, with GOP Senators voicing concerns over her support of removing the Hyde amendment from the federal budget.
As she was confirmed as deputy director of the OMB, she then became the acting director until she was officially confirmed.
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