Shalanda Young

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young, speaks during a "Brunch in Celebration of Black Excellence" on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Few know Shalanda Young. But she saved the US from the kinds of economic crises Trump now faces

Few Democrats found ways to negotiate with Republicans quite like Shalanda Young — whose work as White House budget director stopped several potential economic crises from erupting.
January 17
FILE - Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Sept. 29, 2023. Young, President Joe Biden's top budget official, is warning in stark terms about how lawmakers are running out of time to approve new aid for Ukraine. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Top White House budget official warns of ‘dire’ situation on Ukraine aid

January 5, 2024
President Joe Biden speaks at Auburn Manufacturing Inc., in Auburn, Maine, Friday, July 28, 2023, before he signs an executive order to encourage companies to manufacture new inventions in the United States. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Supreme Court’s student loan decision will lower US deficit according to new White House projection

July 28, 2023
The head of Ukraine's powerful National Security Council, Oleksiy Danilov, speaks to The Associated Press in an interview at his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, Sept. 2. Danilov appealed for additional assistance in the making the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant safe as the site remains caught in the middle of heavy fighting. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova

Biden seeks $47B for Ukraine, COVID-19, monkeypox, disasters

September 2, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks about his proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, March 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden’s budget plan: Higher taxes on rich, lower deficits

March 28, 2022

Debt ceiling negotiators rush for weekend deal

Negotiators from the White House labored Thursday over the U.S. debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s emissaries at the Capitol, grinding through a second day of head-to-head talks trying to strike a budget deal to avert a looming economic crisis. (May 18)

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President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., look on. (Jabin Botsford, Pool via AP)

Biden seeks $10B for aid to Ukraine, $22.5B for coronavirus

March 3, 2022