WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Tax issues forced Nancy Killefer to withdraw from consideration Tuesday to be the first U.S. chief performance officer, she told President Obama in a letter.
"I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your chief performance officer are urgent," Killefer said in the letter released by the White House. "I have also come to realize in the current environment that my personal tax issue of D.C. unemployment tax could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid."