If confirmed, Mr. Vought will be at the center of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.

He stressed he would follow the law, even as he emphasized Trump’s desire to overturn the 1974 Impoundment Control Act that requires congressional approval to rescind spending.

After Trump's defeat, Vought founded the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank. In speeches he made in 2023 and 2024, Vought described how he helped create legal justifications to prevent military leaders and government lawyers from obstructing Trump's executive actions, ProPublica reported.

Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump ... specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine.Vought faced questions at his confirmation hearing over his tenure as director of the Office and ...

The Senate’s confirmation hearing of Russell Vought, one of Washington’s staunchest advocates for cutting spending, offered a preview Wednesday of the bruising spending wars likely to consume

Russell Vought, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

The president-elect's nominee for White House budget director reiterated that Trump believes law protecting Congress’ funding power is unconstitutional.

Democrats grilled Russell Vought, who was tapped to be President-elect Trump’s next budget chief, for his ties to Project 2025 and the powers of the executive branch as senators weighed his

Russell Vought, nominated by Donald Trump to oversee the federal budget, defended Trump's spending cuts at a Senate hearing. Vought, questioned by Democrats on the legality of spending refusals, emphasized Trump's priorities.

“Ranking member Durbin, President Biden is the president of the United States. He was duly sworn in, and he is the president of the United States,” Bondi replied, avoiding a straightforward answer. “There was a peaceful transition of power; President Trump left office and was overwhelmingly elected in 2024.”

Donald Trump’s picks for Cabinet are going before Senate committees that oversee agencies Trump wants them to run. Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio, Sean Duffy, Chris Wright, John Ratcliffe and Russell Vought will appear for their hearings Wednesday.

Russell Vought, Donald Trump's pick to direct the Office of Management and Budget, will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Wednesday around 1:00 p.m. Vought held this position in Trump's first term and has since worked on the RNC's platform committee and the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025.