Washington – Senate of the US Democrats are planning to give a series of speeches on the first floor on Wednesday to emphasize their opposition to the candidate for president Donald Trump in order to manage the management office and budget.
Tactics will make the chamber staff work all night, although it will not delay it on Thursday evening on Thursday evening.
At least four Republicans are probably not subject to voting against the confirmation of Russ Vought, the minimum number needed to reject the candidate in the GOP chamber.
A member of the budget committee, Jeff Merkley, Oregon Democrat, began speaking in the middle of the afternoon, saying that Vought is “the most dangerous candidate of Donald Trump.”
“This man is extremely dangerous for the foundations of our republic – a system of rights and controls and balances of our constitution,” said Merkley. “And when you introduce in the management office and budget, a person who deliberately avoids and turns over the country’s rights and says that he will not follow the separation of rights – it is the basic danger that we all took the oath to the constitution must stop.”
Detention lawyer
Vought was the deputy director, the director, and then the OMB director during the first term of Trump.
Later, he launched a conservative Think Tank entitled The Center for Reneving America, which he published many times in the last few years about the idea that the president may refuse to spend money by Congress. Vought also wrote a chapter from the 2025 project, the conservative program of the Heritage Foundation Foundation, in the Presidency’s Executive Office.
The refusal to issue appropriated funds is excluded under the Act on detention control in 1974, which legislators adopted after the then President Richard Nixon distorted billions of federal financing, which the Congress approved.
Vought said during his confirmation hearing that he expected to question the constitutionality of the law confirmed by the Senate.
“The president took up the issue of arrest and reminded the country that 200 years of presidents used this organ,” said Vought during the hearing. “We will develop our approach to this problem and strategy when its administration is office.”
The issue is expected to lead to lawsuits that would probably reach the Supreme Court.
OMB note
The Trump administration has already raised alarms for members of the Congress of both political parties in connection with the separation of power, especially after the OMB director published a two -page note at the end of January, calling for freezing subsidies and loans.
This note led to a significant confusion throughout the country, to which programs stopped, which were not and whether the executive unit actually had the right to refuse to spend money on the Congress approved on the basis of bilateral.
This note was lifted in less than two days, during which two lawsuits were filed.
Since then, two federal judges Approved separate fleeting orders for embarrassment To prevent the administration of Trump from implementing the basic elements of the funding pause proposed in this note.
Senators weigh
Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray, a ranking of a member of the Funds Commission, said that if it is confirmed, Vaught “Depa all division of power, will ignore the authority of the Congress and hurt the American people, stopping the funds on which they rely.”
“Just look at what happened last time when Russ Vought was the director of OMB,” said Murray. “He tried to break the law to give President Trump unilateral authority, which he has no help from security of Ukraine and replacing the Congress decision in expenses.”
Murray called on her republican colleagues to vote against Vought confirmation, saying that it makes no sense to confirm “someone who does not respect the constitutional power of the Senate.”
Democratic Minnesota Senator Tina Smith said that her opposition to being the director of OMB focused on separating the rights in the constitution, which gives Congress control over the expenditure decisions by the government, also called the power of the bag.
“These ideas are dangerous, are unconstitutional and are already hurting real people,” said Smith. “Turn the financing, which was announced last week, comes straight from the plans of Russell Vought 2025 and this is one of many reasons why I will oppose him when we vote tomorrow.”
Smith said that the note about freezing was “testing the extreme and dangerous ideas of Russell Vought and seeing how far they can go.”
Every democrat spoke
Hawaii Senator Brian Shatz said that during 30 hours of debate, which began around 13:00. Eastern Wednesday, almost every democratic senator, will give a speech on the floor, explaining why they oppose Vought confirmation as the OMB director.
“If the OMB director is confirmed, Russ Vaught may be the most important man that no one has ever heard of,” Scatz said, “in normal circumstances OMB directors are powerful, but a little anonymous, because they are responsible for technical things, nerds of things – development and implementation the entire federal budget and are developed by the president’s priorities. “
“But Russ Vought wants to go beyond that. He wants to take an agency that people from outside Washington have not even heard, and turn it into the center of nerves and the Federal Government Energy Center, “said Scatz. “He wants to consolidate power in OMB in such a clear and sometimes illegal way that he will be able to decide who deserves the help of the government and who does not.”
Last updated 17:03, February 5, 2025
