Brian Deese - Wikipedia

2008 presidential campaignEdit

After the Center for American Progress, Deese joined Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign as her economic policy director. After Clinton was defeated in the primaries, Deese went to work as an economic advisor to the Obama-Biden campaign.[5]

Following the 2008 presidential election, he served as a member of the Economic Policy Working Group for the presidential transition.[6]

National Economic CouncilEdit

At the start of the Obama Presidency, Deese was appointed as a Special Assistant to the President for economic policy, serving in the National Economic Council (NEC). According to The New York Times, he emerged as "one of the most influential voices" on the auto industry, and specifically the Chrysler and GM bailouts.[3]

In 2011, Deese was named Deputy Director of the NEC. In this role, he coordinated policy development for the White House on taxes, financial regulation, housing, clean energy, manufacturing, and the automotive industry. According to The New Republic, he was among Washington's "most powerful, least famous people".[7]

Office of Management and BudgetEdit

Deese was named Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the summer of 2013. He briefly served as the Acting Director in summer 2014, between the departure of Sylvia Mathews Burwell and the appointment of Shaun Donovan.

Senior Advisor to the PresidentEdit

Following the departure of John Podesta, Deese took over his brief on Climate and Energy. Unlike Podesta, who served as Counselor to the President, Deese was promoted to the position of Senior Advisor to the President.[8][9] In this position, Deese played an influential role in negotiating the Paris Climate Agreement in December 2015.[10] Along with Katie Beirne Fallon, Deese helped to negotiate the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act, which replaced the budget sequestration and increased federal spending by $80 billion over two years.[11][12] In February 2016, the President tapped Deese to oversee the Supreme Court nomination process, which led to the President's nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on March 16, 2016.[13]

1. ^"Middlebury College National Fellowship & Scholarship Competition Results". Archived from the original on 2006-08-12. 2002 Nominees: Claire Bowen '02 (American Literature), Brian Deese '00 (Political Science) ... 2002 Finalists: Claire Bowen, Brian Deese 
2. ^"Biography: Brian Deese". PetersonInstitute.org. Retrieved 2011-07-07. 
3. ^ ab"The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M." by David E. Sanger, The New York Times, May 31, 2009 (p. B1 NY ed.). Retrieved 6/1/2009.
4. ^Deese, Brian (2004-09-13). "That Rosy Unemployment Rate". AmericanProgress.org. Retrieved 2011-07-07. 
5. ^Block, Sandra (2008-10-18). "McCain vs. Obama: The story on taxes". USA Today. Retrieved 2011-07-07. 
6. ^"Policy Working Groups | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team". Change.gov. Retrieved 2011-07-07. 
7. ^The Editors (2011-11-03). "Washington's Most Powerful, Least Famous People". The New Republic. Retrieved 2011-10-25. 
8. ^Dovere, Edward-Isaac (21 January 2015). "Brian Deese to succeed John Podesta". Politico. Retrieved 2015-02-16. 
9. ^"Senior Advisor Brian Deese". The White House. Retrieved 2015-03-02. Brian Deese is currently serving as Assistant to the President & Senior Advisor. His duties include overseeing climate, conservation and energy policy and advising the President on a range of domestic and international policy issues. 
10. ^"Statement by the President on the Paris Climate Agreement". 2015-12-12. Retrieved 2016-07-23. 
11. ^Herszenhorn, David M. (2015-10-27). "A Budget Deal Promising Peace Is Rooted in Modest Goals". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-23. 
12. ^"Remarks by the President at Signing of the Budget Act of 2015". 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2016-07-23. 
13. ^"Obama taps senior adviser Brian Deese to run Supreme Court nomination process". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-07-23.