{"id":2399988,"date":"2025-02-06T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-russ-vought-as-trumps-budget-director-despite-democrats-stall-tactics-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:32:58","slug":"senate-confirms-russ-vought-as-trumps-budget-director-despite-democrats-stall-tactics-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-russ-vought-as-trumps-budget-director-despite-democrats-stall-tactics-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Russ Vought as Trump\u2019s budget director despite Democrats\u2019 stall tactics &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-confirms-russ-vought-as-trumps-budget-director-despite-democrats-stall-tactics-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2399988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Senate has confirmed Russell Vought as the\u2064 new director of the\u2062 Office of Management and \u2062Budget (OMB) with a 53-47 vote along party lines. Vought previously \u2063held\u2063 this position during\u2062 part of Donald Trump&#8217;s first term.His nomination faced\u200d significant opposition from Democrats, primarily \u200bdue to his association with conservative\u2064 think tanks and policies aimed at downsizing the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats expressed concerns that Vought would\u200d continue Trump&#8217;s agenda of \u2062significantly altering the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sounds-like-chatgpt-christie-slams-ramaswamy-for-plagiarizing-obama-line\/\" title=\"Christie criticizes Ramaswamy for copying Obama&#039;s words.\">federal administrative state<\/a>, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">included \u200bcontroversial funding freezes<\/a> and a push \u2064to empower the executive branch over federal workers. In\u200d protest of his nomination, Senate democrats conducted a lengthy speech \u2064session to \u200ddelay the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Vought supports the re-implementation of &#8220;Schedule F,&#8221; a policy from Trump&#8217;s first term that allows more \u200ccontrol over federal\u200b employees to ensure alignment with presidential policies, reinforcing Trump\u2019s vision of government efficiency.Vought is a Wheaton college graduate and is married with two\u200c daughters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Senate confirms Russ Vought as Trump&rsquo;s budget director despite Democrats&rsquo; stall tactics<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1938671\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>After days of contention, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Senate<\/a> on Thursday voted to confirm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russell-vought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Russell Vought<\/a> to be the country&rsquo;s next director of the Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The Senate voted 53-47 along party lines to return Vought to the job. Vought, 48, previously served as director of the OMB during part of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s first term. The OMB produces and oversees the president&rsquo;s budget, among other responsibilities, and has gotten outsize attention given Trump&rsquo;s effort to slash the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Vought&rsquo;s nomination courted controversy among Democrats. Vought is the president of the conservative think tank Center for Renewing America, which was on the advisory board for the Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican presidential administration &mdash; an initiative that Trump disavowed on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Democrats attempted to tie Trump to the Project 2025 agenda, and Vought&rsquo;s pick to lead the budget office caused some uproar on the Left.<\/p>\n<p>Vought&rsquo;s confirmation was also somewhat overshadowed by the Trump administration&rsquo;s recent efforts to temporarily suspend large amounts of federal funding. While the controversial memo was later rescinded, it showed that the administration is serious about upending the federal administrative state and overhauling the government.<\/p>\n<p>Vought&rsquo;s confirmation vote came to the Senate floor despite a last-minute move by Senate Democrats to boycott his committee vote to protest the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3304500\/congressional-democrats-victory-lap-omb-rescinding-aid-freeze-memo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">now-rescinded funding freeze<\/a>&nbsp;by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats also launched a talkathon on Wednesday in protest of Vought and Trump&rsquo;s policies. Senate Democrats delivered a marathon of speeches on the Senate floor that lasted overnight and was designed to delay the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have railed against the way Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk have worked to downsize the federal government through the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Imagine a world where Russell Vought and the DOGE team up, and it&rsquo;s a team that can do such harm and pain for America,&rdquo; said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also moved to re-implement a version of his Schedule F mandate that he imposed during his first term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after he was sworn into office, Trump signed an executive order giving him more power over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/day-one-executive-orders-the-actions-trump-will-take-after-becoming-president\/\" title=\"Day One executive orders: The actions Trump will take after becoming ...\">career federal workers<\/a>. The move is part of a broader effort to rein in the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy, an issue he will work on with Vought at the head of OMB.<\/p>\n<p>The order makes it clear that employees in question are not required to personally or politically support the current president or policies of the administration, but that they &ldquo;are required to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reinstates-schedule-f-expanding-power-to-fire-federal-workers\/\" title=\"Trump reinstates ... F, expanding power to fire ...\">faithfully implement administration policies<\/a> to the best of their ability, consistent with their constitutional oath and the vesting of executive authority solely in the president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The order&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-features\/3224546\/donald-trump-versus-federal-workforce-part-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is meant<\/a>&nbsp;to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/day-one-executive-orders-the-actions-trump-took-after-becoming-president\/\" title=\"Day One executive orders: The actions Trump took after becoming ...\">make government employees<\/a> more responsive to the president and to prevent what Trump has termed &ldquo;the deep state&rdquo; from obstructing his agenda. Critics have argued that it would undermine the quality of the civil service. <\/p>\n<p>During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee, Vought <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2025\/01\/russ-vought-takeaways-omb-00200116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">defended<\/a> Schedule F.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Schedule F &hellip; is meant to ensure the president&rsquo;s administration has people working for him that are actually going to do the policies he ran on,&rdquo; Vought said. &ldquo;We think that is an important fundamental principle.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vought graduated from Wheaton College, an evangelical school in Illinois. He is married and has two daughters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1938671\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1938671\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate confirms Russ Vought as Trump\u2019s budget director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3360,"featured_media":2399989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vought-confirmed-senate.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45550,3740,3634],"class_list":["post-2399988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-russ-vought","tag-senate","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vought-confirmed-senate.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399992,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399988\/revisions\/2399992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}