Senate Should Reject Vought at OMB

January 15, 2025

Senate Should Reject Vought at OMB

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding a confirmation hearingtoday for Russell Vought, President Trump's nominee to head the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement:

"Vought has no business going back to OMB. His extreme ideological opposition to regulations that protect consumers, workers, our environment, and public health and safety will lead to more deregulatory disasters that harm all of us.

"A self-proclaimed Christian nationalist, Vought was a key architect of Project 2025. He wants to slash funding for critical government agencies and services, interfere with agencies that are supposed to be politically independent, exclude the benefits of regulation from cost-benefit analysis, and fire vast numbers of civil service employees simply for doing their jobs. In addition, he abused his power during his last tenure at OMB to override agency experts, repeatedly endangering public health and safety.

"The Senate should reject this dangerous and extreme nomination."