WASHINGTON – The Senate voted along the party’s line on Thursday, confirming Vault as the next head of management and budget despite Russell’s heavy push from Democrats.
The Democrats are divided into various Trump candidates, but they were united in opposition to Vought.
Trump’s agenda is that Democrats want to build a message they oppose, from his long-standing relationship to his 2025 project to his support for a cut-off spending program that benefits the middle class from his election denial. It is considered an embodiment of
But few Democrats could do to prevent Vought’s nomination from sailing and reaching confirmation, with just 47 Democrats in the Senate, compared to the Republican 53-seat majority.
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Still, Democrats opposed Vought when their names were called during the roll call vote. Speech during the vote was repeated by Senator Ashley Moody of R-FLA, who was the senator at the time, as each Democrat tried to speak.
Many Democrats said they spoke “on behalf” of their first responders, federal workers and other groups during the vote against Vought’s confirmation.
“I vote against the influence of the creepy billionaire,” Sen. Sheldon White House said when he voted.
Senator Patty Murray said in X, after the vote, “to ignore the laws of our country, to cut funds to support people across the country and to give Trump unprecedented, unconstitutional power.” He said he was an extremist who revealed this.
“There will be consequences,” she added.
Democrats kept the Senate in a one-night session until Thursday morning to file their case against Vought after moving forward with a 53-47 party line vote on Wednesday. He was confirmed on the same vote Thursday.
“Russell Vote is not a business candidate. He is one of the most fringed, right-right individuals the Senate has seen in a very long time. “He is the lead architect for Project 2025. He is the leader of the project. is set to make Project 2025 a federal government official policy. And at OMB he has the power to implement it and hurt all Americans.”
“Whether it’s Medicare or Medicaid, Social Security, whether you own a home, whether it’s helping you buy a home, or helping a school, for veterans, you’ll name it “I’ll put it on. Looking at Project 2025, they want to cut a lot of those things down to bits,” Schumer says.
Republicans celebrated the confirmation vote, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said with the help of Vought in X, “restore financial sanity to the budget and dismantle the regulated state.” .
After he was confirmed, Vought said in X: “God is praised. I would like to thank the President and the US Senate. I am incredibly grateful to many who prayed for me. Now. .
Vought was a key author of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a conservative blueprint that overhauls parts of the federal government that Republicans have distanced during the presidential election.
In the section on OMB Directors, Vought writes that this post can play a “strong” role in curbing government spending.
“While some people mistakenly view it as just a paper-pushing movement, the president’s budget is actually a powerful mechanism for setting and enforcing public policies in federal agencies,” he writes. .
Democrats also opposed his appointment over concerns that they would freeze federal funds further and push for cuts in federal employment. During the current fundraising freeze, launched by the Trump administration, Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee boycotted the vote to advance the nomination.
Vought also promoted false claims that the 2020 election was illegal, including during his confirmation process.
In a written survey by the Senate Budget Committee, when asked whether Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Vought replied, “I believe the 2020 election was equipped.”
