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While the logjam of Biden administration nominees is slowly loosening, Democrats say that it’s not happening equitably. Progressive activists and party officials are accusing Republicans of disproportionately delaying women and nominees of color in their quest for confirmation to the executive branch. Jeff Hauser, the executive director of the Revolving Door Project, said, "There are some very slow nominations. We compare Alvaro Bedoya [for the Federal Trade Commission] to Jonathan Kanter [to head the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice] as the most recent anti-monopoly nominees, and Kanter moved through expeditiously with bipartisan support and Bedoya is going to be a slog, and it’s going to require discharge.” Hauser also cited Kristin Johnson at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Shalanda Young at the office of management and budget, and Gigi Sohn, who is LGBTQ, at the Federal Communications Commission, as diverse nominees who have been stalled in the Senate. “Some of these things are not just about the specific people, but it does seem clear that…the white men tend to do better or the white candidate when it’s white versus non-white or the straight versus non straight,” Hauser said.