Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) advised The Hill on Tuesday that she plans to vote for Russell Vought, President Trump’s decide to go the White Home price range workplace, paving the best way for Vought’s probably affirmation later this week.
“Yes, I’m going to support it,” she stated of Vought’s nomination to go the Workplace of Administration and Funds (OMB).
Collins believes that senators ought to give presidents deference to choose senior govt department officers so long as they’re certified for the job, in line with a supply accustomed to her views.
Vought served as OMB director from 2019 to 2020, throughout Trump’s first time period
He has come beneath criticism from Democrats for supporting the view that the president has the constitutional authority to impound funds appropriated by Congress, however he acknowledged throughout his affirmation listening to that courts have upheld the Impoundment Management Act, which Congress handed to cease presidents from holding up congressionally approved funds.
Vought has additionally been criticized for contributing to Challenge 2025, the conservative blueprint for reforming the federal authorities, which has aligned with Trump’s govt actions to freeze and consider spending throughout his first two and a half weeks in workplace.
Vought’s nomination handed out of the Funds Committee final week on an 11-0 vote after Democrats boycotted the assembly to protest a freeze the OMB positioned on federal grants and loans.
