Who is… Neera Tanden?

Returned to run CAP and its 501c4 lobbying arm, pushing incremental "Patients' Bill of Rights" proposals in 2026 after earlier floating Social Security and Medicare cuts and promoting "Medicare Extra" to preserve private insurers against single-payer.

Appointed to senior West Wing posts by President Joe Biden after bipartisan Senate opposition over her partisan attacks and corporate fundraising sank her 2021 nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

Advised Hillary Clinton's campaigns and personally whipped 2016 Democratic National Convention platform committee members to vote down Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plank.

Helped draft the Affordable Care Act alongside White House officials and health industry stakeholders while working to keep single-payer and a robust public option off the table.

Under Tanden's leadership, CAP accepted millions in corporate donations from anti-Medicare for All lobbying group America's Health Insurance Plans, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CVS Health, Walmart, and drugmaker Eli Lilly.

Bankrolled at CAP by anti-single-payer billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Walmart's Walton family, and Wall Street executives while incubating centrist operatives including Matthew Yglesias and Adam Jentleson at CAP Action.

Censored and disciplined CAP writers critical of Israeli government policy to appease pro-Israel donors and AIPAC allies before personally hosting right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at CAP in 2015.

Took up to $2.5M from the United Arab Emirates alongside corporate checks from weapons makers Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin while operating CAP Action Fund as a 501c4 dark-money lobbying vehicle.