Washington – the US Senate Democrats plan to keep a number of ground speeches overnight on Wednesday to highlight their opposition to President Donald Trump’s candidate in order to lead the Office for Management and Household.
The tactics will keep the chamber’s employees all night, although it does not delay the final confirmation on Thursday evening.
It is also not likely that at least four Republicans will be voted against the confirmation of Russ Vougge.
The budget committee, the member Jeff Merkley, a democrat in Oregon, started the speeches in the middle of the afternoon and said that Vought was “Donald Trump’s most dangerous candidate”.
“This man is incredibly dangerous for the basics of our republic – the system of laws and the reviews of our constitution,” said Merkley. “And if they are inserted into the office of management and a budget, which deliberately avoids the laws of the country and has been overwhelmed to the constitution. “
Pollution lawyer
VOUGHT served as deputy director, deputy director and then director of OMB at Trump’s first office.
After later, Vouging started a conservative Think Tank called Center for Renewing America, which has been repeatedly published in recent years to publish the idea that a president can refuse to spend money that has acquired the congress. The chapter in Project 2025, the Conservative Agenda of the Heritage Foundation, also vowht about the Executive Office of the Presidency.
The refusal of issuing the funds acquired is excluded in accordance with the 1974 consideration control law, which the legislator passed after the then President Richard Nixon issued with the issue of billions in federal funds that the congress had approved.
Handled during his Hearing for confirmation The Senate was once confirmed that he expected to question the constitutionality of the law.
“The President conducted the question of the pollution and the country reminded that 200 years of the president used this authority,” said Vought during the hearing. “And we will develop our approach on this topic and this strategy as soon as his administration is in office.”
It is expected to complain that the problem that would probably bring to the Supreme Court.
Omb memo
The Trump government has already triggered alarms for members of the congress of both political parties to separate powers, especially after the incumbent OMB director published a two-sided memo at the end of January, in which freezing for scholarship and credit financing was required at the end of January .
This memo led to considerable confusion in the whole country about which programs were affected by the support, which was not and whether the executive actually had the authority to simply refuse to spend money that was approved on the basis of cross -party base.
This memo was lifted in less than two days, during this time two complaints were filed.
The two federal judges have since Approved separate transient restraint orders approved In order to prevent the Trump administration from implementing the core elements of the financing break proposed in this memo.
Senators weigh a
The Democratic Senator of Washington, Patty Murray, a rank member of the appropriation committee, said when confirmed, will be used to “ignore authority, ignore the authority of the congress and to injure the American people by holding back the means to which they rely.”
“Just take a look at what Russia served as the director of the omb,” said Murray. “He tried to break the law in order to give President Trump one -sided authority that he does not have in order to keep security support to Ukraine and to override the spending decisions of the congress.”
Murray asked her republican colleagues to vote against voough confirmation, and said it would not make sense for her to “confirm someone who does not respect the constitutional authority of the Senate”.
Tina Smith, a democratic senator of Minnesota, said her opposition to the director of OMB director at the focus of the separation of powers in the constitution, which gives the congress in control of government spending decisions, which are also referred to as the authority of the wallet.
“These ideas are dangerous, they are unconstitutional and are already injuring real people,” said Smith. “The funding freezer, who was announced last week, comes directly from the plans of Russell Vouug in 2025 and this is one of the many reasons that I will ultimately vote against this morning.”
Smith said that the financing -Freeze -Memo was to “test and see Russell vough’s extreme and dangerous ideas and how far you can take it”.
To speak every democrat
Hawaii’s senator, Brian Schatz, said that during the 30 hours of the debate, which started around 1 p.m. East Wednesday, almost every democratic senator will keep a floor speech in which you explain why you are confirmed against vougths as an omb director.
“If the director of omb was confirmed, Russ Voughs is definitely the most important man that nobody has ever heard of” Nerdy things – development and implementation of the entire federal budget and the priorities of the president. “
“But Russ Vowht wants to go far beyond. He wants to take an agency from which people outside of Washington have not even heard, and convert them into the nerve center and the center of power of the Federal Government, ”said Schatz. “He wants to consolidate the power in OMB in such strong and sometimes illegally so that he can decide who deserves the help of the government and who is not.”
Last updated 5:03 p.m., February 5, 2025
