Senate Confirms Russell Vought for Office of Management and Budget Despite Massive Democrat Pushback
The Senate confirmed Russell Vought to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Thursday despite massive pushback from Democrats.

The Senate confirmed Russell Vought to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Thursday despite massive pushback from Democrats.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” host Lawrence O’Donnell stated that the OMB memo on a temporary pause on some programs, written by acting OMB Director Matthew Vaeth, who is “actually a holdover from the Biden administration” and
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday issued a memo with guidance for returning federal workers to work after President Donald Trump took executive action, ordering heads of departments and agencies to require employees to go back to work in person.
During a meeting on Wednesday of the Senate Committee on the Budget, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) told Office of Management and Budget Director Nominee Russell T. Vought that his America First Act would ban illegal immigrants from receiving welfare and other benefits.
The incoming administration will “labor to make the American government work again,” President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought said in his opening statement on Wednesday before the committee.
President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to wage war over his constitutional impoundment authority, and Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) is leading the congressional advance.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is key to making Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts a reality, Ed Martin, President of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and new Chief of Staff at Office of Management and Budget, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Ed Martin explains how his new job as the Chief of Staff at the Office of Management and Budget will help advance Trump’s MAGA agenda.
“Impoundment” is a crucial tool that can be used to slash government spending and waste, Ed Martin, new chief of staff at OMB, said.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that prominent D.C. lawyer Mark Paoletta will return to the White House as general counsel of the OMB under returning director Russ Vought, the tip of the spear for reversing the direction of federal regulations and spending, building the border wall, and implementing recommendations from Elon and Vivek’s DOGE to overhaul the federal government.
The Biden administration is trying to make U.S. taxpayers fund abortions by leaving out the Hyde Amendment from the Fiscal Year 2025 budget.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis railed against Biden’s “absurd” scheme to survey electricity consumption from the cryptocurrency mining industry.
The Office of Management and Budget Acting Director would not say if President Joe Biden’s budget will fund the Wuhan Lab of Virology after the coronavirus cost America $13 trillion.
The top Republicans on two House panels declared their concern Monday over a reported plan by the Biden Administration to send cash payments to Central American countries to help address the root causes of the migrant crisis.
Former Trump administration lawyer Mark Paoletta told House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) Thursday that the Joe Biden administration violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding federal funds for the border wall.
The Biden administration threw its support behind statehood for Washington, DC on Tuesday, bucking previous Democrat administrations’ legal determinations of unconstitutionality.
Day 43 into the Biden presidency, his cabinet is still half-empty because of the slow start in confirmations.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she met with Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), on Monday but that she hadn’t made a decision on whether to support her confirmation.
Neera Tanden, nominee for Office of Management and Budget (OMB), wrote on Twitter that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is “high on her supply.” Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim confronted Murkowski Wednesday about the reports of Tanden’s attack.
Nominee Neera Tanden for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) did not delete tweets that accuse Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) of being, “high on her supply.” A shocking revelation amid a sinking nomination in need of every last vote, especially moderate Murkowski’s.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Sunday he is whipping votes for President Joe Biden’s nominee, Neera Tanden, to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
President Joe Biden’s first nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Neera Tanden is in crisis control mode, reaching out to senators after her confirmation was harpooned by Sen. Bernie Sander’s (D-VT) tough line of questioning and Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) revealed “no” vote against her.
It was a serious Friday afternoon for President Joe Biden’s Office of Management and Budget nominee, Neera Tanden, whose nomination looks to be sinking in the quagmire of Democrat-controlled Senate politics.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced his opposition to Neera Tanden’s nomination to serve as director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget on Friday, likely signaling the Biden administration will not have the votes for confirmation.
Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), said Monday that she approves of a $15 minimum wage after telling Hillary Clinton’s campaign to avoid such a policy position.
The United States Chamber of Commerce is backing President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Neera Tanden, who has deep financial ties to billionaire George Soros, Wall Street firms, and Silicon Valley’s biggest tech corporations.
Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), apologized Tuesday for her years of publicly attacking Republicans, including many Republican senators who will vote on her confirmation.
During his first hours in the White House, President Joe Biden declared “rooting out systemic racism” would be a goal for every single department and agency within his government.
President-elect Joe Biden is accusing the Trump administration’s senior political staff within the Department of Defense (DOD) and other agencies of putting national security at risk by obstructing the White House transition process.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has instructed federal agencies to prepare a budget for President Donald Trump’s second term.
Members of a national network of black leaders applauded President Donald Trump’s executive order to defund “critical race theory” training at the federal level.
Critical race theory will be purged from federal agencies, as well as any training materials that teach “that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.”
The Trump administration redirected funds from the W.H.O. to groups such as Samaritan’s Purse and the Red Cross, the New York Post reported.
Sources said the Office of Management and Budget is working on a plan to cut U.S. funding to the controversial World Health Organization.
Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought told Breitbart News that a bipartisan infrastructure deal is still on the table.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled her new legislation to make government more transparent and slash wasteful spending exclusively on Breitbart News Daily.
The acting director of the OMB, who was berated by Bernie Sanders for his Christian faith, will address the Pro-Life Summit in D.C.
House Democrats will hold the sixth public hearing of their impeachment inquiry with Laura Cooper and David Hale.
Democrats will hold the fifth public hearing of their impeachment inquiry on Wednesday with testimony from Gordon Sondland.
Vindman worked on the National Security Council at the White House for President Donald Trump, but his testimony makes clear that his loyalty, trust, and preference were devoted to the “government interagency.”