Biden also selected Wally Adeyemo to be Yellen’s deputy, which would make him the first Black deputy treasury secretary.
Rouse, Tanden and Adeyemo will all require Senate confirmation, and Tanden in particular is already drawing heavy Republican criticism.
“They’re fairly conventional liberal economists and experts.”Still, the Biden administration’s ambitious goals will face solid opposition from Republicans in Congress.
She first made her mark in the Clinton orbit, and served as policy director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential race.
Bernstein has also worked as a social worker and was an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-supported think tank.