An architect of Project 2025 was confirmed by the Senate to become the next head of the Office of Management and Budget despite Democrat’s objections.
The Senate voted to confirm the controversial project’s co-author Russel Vought along party lines 53 – 47.
‘God be praised. Grateful to the President and the US Senate. Incredibly thankful for all the many who prayed me through. Now. Let’s. Go,’ Vought posted on X after his confirmation.
Democrats have furiously pushed back on Vought’s nomination accusing him of trying to enact the ambitious conservative political initiative to reshape government.
Liberals decried Project 2025 during the presidential campaign, often pointing to it as a handbook Trump would use if elected. Trump denied being involved in the platform.
‘We will expose how he’s turning Project 2025 into the White House agenda,’ Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on the floor this week.
‘With Mr. Vought, who is one of the chief architects of Project 2025, as head of OMB, all of it – much of it damaging, dangerous for the American people – will be implemented,’ Schumer warned.
During the vote to confirm him many Democrats yelled out their complaints with Vought while casting their vote, which earned them a swift scolding for breaking Senate rules.
Florida Republican Sen. Ashley Moody repeatedly reprimanded the liberals during their outbursts that ‘no debate is permitted during a vote.’
Russ Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), prepares to testify at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in January
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined by members of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., criticizes Russ Vought, an author of the conservative handbook Project 2025 and President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget, at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025
President Donald Trump listens as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought speaks during an event on ‘transparency in Federal guidance and enforcement’ in 2019
Democrats have for months said that Vought will be bad for working families and good for billionaire donors of Trump’s.
‘I vote against creepy billionaire influence,’ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said when voting before being scolded by Moody.
Sen. Patty Murray slammed Vought on X following his confirmation: ‘Vought is an extremist who has made clear he’ll ignore our nation’s laws, cut funding that helps people across the country & give Trump unprecedented & unconstitutional power.’
‘There will be consequences,’ her post continued.
Democrats attempted to stymie Vought’s nominee by keeping the Senate going overnight from Wednesday into Thursday.
In three hour shifts the liberals would come in and rail against Vought for their perception he will cut vital programs like Social Security or Medicare.
Though after the time for debate finished, there was nothing they could do to stop the Republican majority in the Senate from pushing through the nominee.
‘I look forward to working with OMB Director Russ Vought and congratulate him on being confirmed by the Senate,’ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a statement.
Democrats repeatedly bashed Project 2025 during the 2024 campaign
Vought’s work with the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 earned him the scorn of all Senate Democrats who voted against his confirmation
‘Russ is highly qualified, and served in the same capacity in the first Trump Administration. I believe he is the right man at the right time to get our fiscal house in order.’
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul wrote: ‘Director Vought will play a crucial role in leading President Trump’s budget, overseeing agency use of funds, and collaborating with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).’
‘I proudly supported Director Vought during a confirmation process filled with partisan attacks and appreciate his willingness to serve.’
Vought previously served in Trump’s first administration as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
