Controversial Trump nominee, Russell Vought, has officially been confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the position of director of the Office of Management and Budget. What makes this so satisfying is that Democrats tried to do their absolute best to gum up the works and slow down the process with a 30-hour filibuster, which was jam packed with useless speeches criticizing the Trump administration for going full Michael Myers on waste spending.
Yes, you read that right. Democrats are big mad that Trump and his people over at DOGE are actually auditing federal spending and cutting out the waste and fraud to save taxpayers money. If this doesn’t demonstrate to remaining Democrats in this country that the party does not care about you, what will? They want your money for themselves. Greedy politicians want you to sacrifice your liberty so they can be healthy and wealthy without lifting a finger. You do the work so they can have the good life.
On Thursday, the Senate held a vote on Vought’s confirmation. The deal was sealed by a vote of 53-47, enabling Vought to have his second term in the position. All Republicans voted in favor of him, a rare moment of party unity, knowing that he will then have a major impact on how the government spends its money, effectively giving him an opportunity to drain some of the “power of the purse” from Congress.
“Unsurprisingly, Democrats voted in lockstep against Vought, but that wasn’t enough to overcome the Republican majority in the upper chamber. Even though it was clear from the beginning that Vought would be confirmed, Democratic elected officials were put under tremendous pressure from their base to oppose the Trump administration and its America First agenda,” Trending Politics News reported. “Knowing they could not prevent the confirmation but could, at the minimum, delay it a bit, Democratic senators spent a total of 30 hours in procedural time delivering speeches condemning the Trump administration for cutting spending.”
On Thursday afternoon, Democratic Senators kicked off their filibuster with a set of programming meant to keep things rolling in the upper chamber with the hope somebody would cry “uncle.” I mean, the most effective means of making that happen would be forcing the GOP senators to listen to former Vice President Kamala Harris talk on any given subject for the entirety of the event.
The filibuster went on until the morning hours and then throughout the following day.
“Why doesn’t government run like a business?” asked Sen. Brian Schatz, a Hawaiian Democrat, while giving a speech on the Senate floor. “Let me tell you why: because if you ran government like a business, you would shut down every rural hospital.”
The report said, “Schatz ended up taking multiple turns to deliver such talks throughout the filibuster, though he did pass the torch a few times to Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Another frequent presence for the party was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. Unlike most filibusters, where a single individual must hold the floor for hours without taking a break in order to make proceedings come to a complete stop, with no pre-set end time, the 30-hour time clock would have run out eventually whether or not anyone delivered a speech.”
There’s another reason, aside from having power over money, that the left so desperately hates Vought. He is the author of the “Executive Office of the President” page in the widely despised — by Democrats — Project 2025 document.
The filibuster was not the first time that the left hated on Vought, having held numerous news conferences to showcase the kind of stakes they see being involved in his confirmation.
“I wish they had the strength, damn it, to vote him down. And I know the Senate was up all night,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the head Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, remarked about Republicans during an interview from Thursday. “Russ Vought does not belong in public service. He really should be thrown out. He is a dangerous person to our government.”
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican and chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on Wednesday that she would be worried about Vought’s confirmation if “the Trump administration is clawing back money that has been specifically appropriated for a particular purpose.”
When it all shook out, she voted in favor of Vought, along with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky who is usually incredibly suspicious when it comes to government spending
While going through his confirmation hearing before the Budget Committe last month, Vought said, “The president ran on the notion that the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional. I agree with that.”
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