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Donald Trumpâs pick to run the Office of Management and Budget continued his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, but his uncanny ability to slide past tough questionsâand the committeeâs complicity in allowing him to do soâdidnât get past some of the Democratic lawmakers interviewing him.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse torched Russell Voughtâs evasive and bureaucratic non-answers, arguing that the nominee didnât have any special privileges that afforded him the ability not to be completely transparent with the American public.
âWhy can I not get an answerâis there some new rule in this committee?âas to where these executive orders came from?â Whitehouse pressed. âThatâs perfectly, to me, legitimate congressional oversight. Over and over again this witness has told us what questions he will answer, but the oath he took was to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in response to our questions.â
âSo if thereâs some new limitation about what question I can [have answered], I would like to understand that. And if not, I would like to have the chair tell the witness to answer my questions,â he added.
That roped Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham into the heated back and forth, who impressed on Vought that he did not have attorney-client privilege to evade a line of questioning as some of Trumpâs other nominees did.
âI am not claiming a privilege, Senator,â Vought said.
âGenerally speaking, you know, I guess the question is, did you advise on executive orders and which ones?â Graham insisted. âCan you kind of tell us that please?â
âSenator, I was not a member of the transition, I was not a member of the campaign,â Vought said, before adding that he did not have a âcomprehensive knowledge of where the executive orders were drafted.â
But despite the clarification, Vought still refused to pinpoint where the sudden flurry of Day One executive orders had been drafted, despite the fact that many of them fell in line with Project 2025, a plan of Voughtâs own design.
Last week, Vought similarly dipped and dodged hard inquiries by the committee, claiming that a Congressional statute used to reexamine executive branch withholdings from the budget was unconstitutional, and refusing to pledge that he wouldnât deny grants based on the requesterâs political alignment.
Vought ran Trumpâs Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021, during which time he froze military aid for Ukraine, claimed that foreign aid expenditures were âwasteful spending,â and worked to expand the number of federal employees required to work during a government shutdown.
He scooped up another supporting role in Trumpworld during the incoming executiveâs presidential campaign: developing a 180-day âtransition playbookâ to expedite Project 2025âs implementation into the federal government. But his appointment to run the nationâs budget office could see him enter a critical role in shrinking the federal government and advancing Trumpâs agenda.
Vought was also the architect of Trumpâs âSchedule Fâ proposal, which plans to fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with as many as 54,000 pre-vetted Trump loyalists to the executive branch via executive order.
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