President Donald Trump’s choice for director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate, despite the best efforts of the Democratic Party who attempted to bore everyone to death during a 30-hour filibuster that ultimately did nothing but waste time and money. Then again, as DOGE is currently proving, that seems to be what the Democrats live for.
Why were Democrats so afraid of this “controversial” choice for the head of the OMB? Because of Trump and DOGE gutting all the fraudulent spending happening in our government. They are terrified their little “projects” are going to be uncovered and gutted, thus the cash that makes them fat and wealthy will stop flowing into their bank accounts. No more political favors either.
On Thursday, the Senate voted 53-47 to confirm Vought to the position. This will be his second time serving in that spot too. Every member of the GOP in the Senate voted in favor of him. They know that he will play a huge role in how money gets spent by the government and that he will ultimately siphon off a little “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 said. “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 Wednesday afternoon, Democratic senators began their ridiculous filibuster, lobbing speeches like hand grenades at bored Republicans all night and into the morning hours, whining incessantly about cutting waste spending, hoping beyond hope the GOP would beg for mercy and not take the vote. They failed miserably.
“Why doesn’t government run like a business?” asked Sen. Brian Schatz, a Hawaiian Democrat, as he delivered his speech. “Let me tell you why: because if you ran government like a business, you would shut down every rural hospital.”
The report then stated, “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.”
It seems leftists aren’t wild about Vought due to his participation in the infamous Project 2025 that made liberals pee themselves and dedicate hours of news coverage to fear mongering over during the last election. Vought authored the “Executive Office of the President” page.
The Democrats haven’t been saving up their hatred of Vought either. They’ve expressed their distaste for him in news conferences as well.
“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, commented concerning 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.”
As Vought was going through his confirmation hearing in front of the Budget Committee last month he said, The president ran on the notion that the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional. I agree with that.”