Senate confirms Russell Vought as Office of Management and Budget Director

The Senate voted on party lines on Thursday to confirm Russell T. by leading the Office of Management and Budget and introducing one of the most powerful architects of President Trump’s agenda to increase the federal bureaucracy and slash that the administration believes is wasted.

Voting of 53 to 47 returns to Mr. Vought to the White House Budget Office, which he also led under Mr. Trump’s first period. During his term of office, he took steps to expand the number of federal employees required to work during a government extinguishing, froze military assistance to Ukraine and skew against foreign aid expenses.

Mr. Vought appeared as one of Mr. Trump’s most disputed nominees and drew intense setback from the Senates Democrats who described him as a lawless ideologist. They used any legislative tool at their disposal to delay his confirmation reconciliation, commanding the Senate floor on Wednesday night and into Thursday morning to make the case against him.

“We want to talk all night,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat in New York and the minority leader as his colleagues were ready to burn through the clock. “We want Americans every hour, whether it is at.

After leaving the office, Mr. Vought Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank, and was an architect in Project 2025. This document was an effort from conservative groups to develop detailed ideas for policies and executive actions, such as Mr. Trump could pursue to tear down and rebuild performing government institutions in a way that would improve presidential power.

In speeches, Mr. Vought it clear that he enjoyed the opportunity to review the ranks of career union workers, such as Mr. Trump considers part of the “deep state.”

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Said Mr. Vought In a speech from 2023. ”When they wake up in the morning, we want they do not want to go to work because they are increasingly seen as the villains.”

Mr. Vought has also been a spokesman for the idea that the executive branch should have the power to itch back or obtain, Congress approved financing for state agencies and review the so -called administrative state.

During his confirmation hearing last month, Mr. Videkht questions about whether Mr. Trump would follow the will of Congress, authorizing federal expenses, but made it clear that Mr. Trump intended to test the law.

“No, I don’t think it’s constitutionally,” Mr. Vought on the 1974 Improvment Control Act that repeated the power of the congress in purse. “The president ran on this view. It’s his vision and I agree with it. “

In recent weeks Mr. Vought worked in an advisory role at OMB and was involved in the chaotic roll -out of Mr. Trump’s federal funding freezing. This order to freeze trillion of dollars of federal grants and loans was prepared by the office’s general adviser and sent to agencies last week, creating widespread confusion around the country.

The White House lifted the order the next day after legal challenges and condemnation.

The Trump administration has portrayed consumption freezing as an effort to ensure that grants and loans do not violate other executive orders issued by Trump, where he has tried to end several policies that he does not like, such as diversity, justice and inclusion.

A federal judge issued a detention order this week that temporarily blocked the administration from performing the freezer.

Once back at the helm of the budget office, Mr. Vought Lead Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce and create the White House’s upcoming budget proposal, which is likely to include reduction of funds for a variety of programs.

At the end of 2022, while working on his think tank, Mr. Vought a budget plan aimed at reducing the debt by almost $ 9 trillion over a decade through deep expenses and “dismantle the waking and weapon bureaucracy.”