Roll Call - Russell Vought is well-known on Capitol Hill and thus far at least looks like a shoo-in to be confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump’s budget director, as he was during Trump’s first term on a party-line vote in 2020. The hard-charging Vought is a revered figure on the right with his pledges to upend the “deep state” and dismantle “woke and weaponized government,” including by refusing to spend all the money Congress appropriates.
He’ll need to be vetted again in the new year, where Democrats on the Senate Budget and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panels will be poring over Vought’s writings and speeches since leaving the Trump administration to found a new pro-Trump think tank, the Center for Renewing America.
Vought is also one of many contributors to the Heritage
Foundation-led Project 2025, which Trump disavowed during his
presidential campaign and is a major lightning rod on the left. Since Trump’s Nov. 22 announcement that Vought was his choice to once
again lead his Office of Management and Budget, a parade of
conservative GOP senators have come out in support, such as Mike Lee of
Utah, Rick Scott of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marsha Blackburn
of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
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