After Democrats protested the nomination all night long, the Republican-controlled Senate reportedly confirmed Russell Vought to serve as President Donald Trump’s next director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The final vote was 53-47 on Thursday night, with all Republicans voting for Vought and all Democrats and their caucus-forming independents voting against the Cabinet candidate.
Vought launched the Center for Renewing America after serving as OMB’s leader during the first Trump presidency.
Vought was appointed by Trump in November to a second term as OMB’s head, a position that would position him to collaborate with Elon Musk, the head of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), in implementing broad spending cutbacks throughout the federal bureaucracy.
Vought mentioned the problem of inflation driven by “irresponsible” federal spending in his testimony regarding the effective use of public dollars to assist American citizens during his confirmation hearing last month.
Later, by a vote of 8–7, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent Vought’s nomination to the Senate as a whole. On Wednesday, the upper house broke the filibuster on Vought’s nomination with a party-line vote of 53-47.
The Democrats then staged an all-nighter, speaking out against the Cabinet choice on the Senate floor during the 30-hour discussion period. Many of them brought up spending and Project 2025, which Trump denied during his campaign.
In the end, the Democrats were unable to thwart Vought’s confirmation on Thursday, and some of them were silenced when they attempted to raise an objection during the final vote.
others than a dozen of Trump’s Cabinet choices have already received Senate approval, and others are in the process of doing so.
The only other Trump nominee this cycle to receive approval with solely Republican votes, aside from Vought, is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, with Vice President JD Vance acting as a tiebreaker.
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