The Senate on Thursday approved Russell Vought‘s appointment as the nation’s future director of the Office of Management and Budget after weeks of fumbling.
To bring Vought back to the task, the Senate voted a vote of 53 to 47 along party lines. Vought, 48, formerly served as director of the OMB during piece of President Donald Trump’s first word. The OMB produces and oversees the government’s resources, among different tasks, and has gotten outsize notice given Trump’s efforts to slash the federal government.
Vought’s election courted discussion among Democrats. Trump’s campaign road effort, Project 2025, was criticized by Trump as a result of his opposition to it. He is the president of the traditional think tank Center for Renewing America.
However, Democrats attempted to tie Trump to the Project 2025 plan, and Vought’s get to direct the expenditure business caused some uproar on the Left.
The Trump administration’s current efforts to temporarily suspend huge amounts of governmental funding overshadowed Vought’s assurance. The contentious memo was afterwards removed, but it demonstrated that the management is serious about overhauling the authorities and upending the national administrative state.
Vought’s assurance vote came to the Senate floor despite a last-minute walk by Senate Democrats to protest his council vote to rally the , now-rescinded money freeze , by the Trump administration.
Liberals on Wednesday also held a talkathon to rally Trump and Vought’s plans. Senate Democrats delivered a workout of speeches over that were intended to halt the vote.
Democrats have criticized Trump’s and his billionaire supporter Elon Musk’s plan to reduce the federal government through the newly established DOGE, or DOGE, in the past.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY ) made the remarks on the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon,” Imagine a world where Russell Vought and the DOGE team up, and it’s a team that can do such harm and pain for America.”
Trump has even made a move to re-implement a Schedule F requirement that he placed in place during his first term in office.
Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking the oath of office, giving him more authority over his former colleagues as a leader. He may work with Vought at OMB on a larger plan to reduce the size and scope of the national government.
The order specifies that employees in question are not required to physically or socially support the administration’s policies, but that they are “required to diligently apply administration policies to the best of their ability, in accordance with their legal oath and the vesting of executive power only in the president.”
The order , is meant , to make government employees more responsive to the president and to prevent what Trump has termed” the deep state” from obstructing his agenda. It would undermine the standard of the civil service, critics claim.
Vought defended Schedule F during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee.
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According to Vought,” Schedule F is meant to make sure the president’s administration has employees who are actually going to implement the policies he ran on.” ” We think that is an important fundamental principle”.
Vought graduated from Wheaton College, an evangelical school in Illinois. He is married and has two daughters.