White House kills another top Biden nominee amid mounting opposition
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The White House killed President Biden's nomination of Ann Carlson to lead an obscure transportation safety agency she vowed to push climate policies through.
The nomination withdrawal represents the third to die after being sent to the Senate Commerce Committee — Gigi Sohn, Biden's nomination for the Federal Communications Commission, and Phillip Washington, Biden's pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration were both recently withdrawn. Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had led opposition to all three nominees. Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"Based on your record, we are deeply concerned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will follow the EPA’s lead and propose similarly radical vehicle fuel economy standards that run contrary to the law, diminish vehicle choice, impose higher costs on American families, and undermine our national and energy security all while benefitting China," Cruz and every other Commerce Committee Republican wrote in a letter to Carlson on May 1.