officer: the senator from arizona. mr. kelly: mr. president, i bet a lot of folks watching tonight cannot believe that we are here talking about the office of management and budget. the office of management and budget. there is nothing more bureaucratic-sounding in this whole city. and that says something. it's not an office arizonans should really have to think about, let alone see their senators debate for hours. think of this -- think of this office as our government's financial planner. they keep track of spending for everything from veterans' benefits to disaster relief for communities. when flagstaff gets hit by flooding or north scottsdale gets hit by a major wildfire, this is the office that signs off on federal relief. every single federal agency must go through the office of management and budget to access the dollars that congress writes into law for the work that they do for the american people. when it's working right, this is the office that helps build the federal budget and then makes sure that it gets executed according to the law. but that's the problem. under this administration, it's not working right, and it's not following the law. we saw t

we're united in our vote that he is a dangerous choice to lead the office of management and budget and we saw a precursor to his leadership during the federal funding freeze that nearly crippled critical duties of the federal government and its operation. as the chief architect, chief cook and bottle washer of project 2025, it's russell vought who is going to undermine our government. senate democrats will unanimously oppose him and do everything we can to prevent him from leading o.m.b. and should republicans not see the light, this dangerous person into this seat they will have to answer to the american people. russell vought is depending on republicans to put him in and he's a danger to what people in america need. now, on the reason we are here. so over the past few days, hakeem and i work closely and well and i welcome him to the senate as he welcomes me to the house. over the past few days, democrats have warned the american people that doge is acting like a shadow government. he yesterday i said doge is not a real government agency and has no authority to make spending decisions

the clerk: executive office of the president, russell vought, of virginia, to be director of the office -- office of management and budget. the presiding officer: the senator from maine. mr. king: thank you, i yield 30 minutes of my postcloture debate time on the vought nomination to senator schumer. the presiding officer: duly noted. the senator from south carolina. mr. scott: the department of thank you mr. it is true. strong sustainable communities and support affordable homes yet, under president biden and his administration, the department failed to serve our nation's most vulnerable. here's the truth. we are facing a homelessness crisis in america. the latest homelessness survey found an 18% increase in homelessness year over year, increasing the number of homelessness in our country to nearly 772,000 americans not able to find a place to lay their head. this is unacceptable. on top of that, we are facing an affordability crisis in our country as well. during president biden tenure, mortgage rates ballooned 150% and rents 20%. over the last four years, far-left housing policies and burdensome regulations have put t

those are the words of russell vought, the man this president has closen to lead the office of management and budget -- chosen to lead the office of management and budget, so when russell vought says he wants to put these people in trauma, i'm going to take him at his word. this isn't a situation where we need to see what vought is going to do. history has already shown us. in president trump's previous administration, russ vought was lead -- each plan contains a blueprint for robbing the american public of the services that their tax dollars are supposed to fund. he kaufld for -- he called for $500 billion to be cut from medicare. and i will note very significantly that over one million marylanders are enrolled in medicare. two of them are my parents, 77 years old, worked their whole lives and these are the kinds of people that this president and his administration have determined that they will target. $900 billion for medicaid -- from medicaid. i will note nearly two million marylanders rely on medicaid. up to $71 billion cut from social security. and i will note one in seven marylanders receives

we're united in our vote that he is a dangerous choice to lead the office of management and budget and we saw a precursor to his leadership during the federal funding freeze that nearly crippled critical duties of the federal government and its operation. as the chief architect, chief cook and bottle washer of project 2025, it's russell vought who is going to undermine our government. senate democrats will unanimously oppose him and do everything we can to prevent him from leading o.m.b. and should republicans not see the light, this dangerous person into this seat they will have to answer to the american people. russell vought is depending on republicans to put him in and he's a danger to what people in america need. now, on the reason we are here. so over the past few days, hakeem and i work closely and well and i welcome him to the senate as he welcomes me to the house. over the past few days, democrats have warned the american people that doge is acting like a shadow government. he yesterday i said doge is not a real government agency and has no authority to make spending decisions

budget of the united states government. it oversees the budgets of every federal agency of the federal government. they feed their information, they feed their budget requests up to the office of management andget. as the office of management and office that makes the final decisions and signoff on all of those federal agency budgets, across the government. so as i say russell vought will be in the cockpit of this decision-making, overseeing every federal agency in our government. so let's learn a little bit more about russell vought because we will be voting on that nomination later today. so what does he think about the federal employees all of those agencies that omb will oversee with respect to their budgets? here's what he said about g. employees -- about government employees, and i'm quoting here. he wants them to be -- this is his quote -- be extra matically effective -- traumatic effectively. when they wake up in the morning, we want them not to go twoshg because they are increasingly known as villains. we went to put them in trauma, unquote. again referring to hardworking federal employees who do good work on behalf of the american people every day. we want to put them in trauma, he

i can keep speaking about the damage that russell vought would do as leader of the office of the management and budget. i will also appeal to my colleagues here to let me know if any more of them intend to speak. mr. vought's nomination is lead the office of management and budget is one we should all reject, not because we disagree with his policies but because he fundamentally disagrees with our form of government. he fundamentally disrespects this body, the body created along with the house of representatives by article 1 of the united states constitution. he fundamentally believes that his judgment is better than the people's. and i would also add that mr. vought's beliefs are some of the most extreme that i have heard expressed or watched implemented in my lifetime. and with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. alsobrooks. consumer market in the world for growth producers to get access to that market we must engage equal footing. how will you ensure china owners com

now he's putting the architect of project 2025, russ, vote in the command and control center of the entire us budget. that's what the office of management and budget at the white house is doing. and they're proceeding, as you say, to strip away very important rights and protections for americans. the cfpb returned billions of dollars to american consumers who had been cheated by big corporations. elon musk may not care. in fact, he's trying to kill it. and russ votes trying to kill it on behalf of these corporations. so that's just one of many examples where we're seeing something unfold that on the campaign trail, trump was like, i don't know what this is all about. >> i'm going to come back to the cfpb in just a moment. but i want to go back to the fact that you are on the appropriations and the budget committees. i don't know if those rank as people's favorite committees in the public, but they are the ones in the constitution. they are the thing in the that the united states constitution says that you and congress actually have to do, you actually have to meet and you actually have to appropriate the government funds. and it's prett

omb, office of management and budget. not to be confused with opm, office of policy and management. in the state of connecticut, we call the similar body office of policy and management. i suspect that the presiding officer's state, all of our states have something equivalent to omb or opm. it is the kind of brain central of the financial nervous system in the government. it controls the flow, the disbur disbursement, and then also the projections for the future about what the government does. it administers the federal budget, and it's the entity that actually gets that money out the door after congress appropriates it. it puts the money into use by portioning it out to various federal agencies and programs. mr. vought is no stranger to the omb because for four years in the first trump administration, as both acting director and director, he served that agency. unfortunately for us and for him, his record there ought to be disqualifying. he slashed budgets. he obstructed oversight efforts. he repeatedly violated the law by p withholding funding congress had already appropriated. al

of project 2025 key architects. this man, russell, vote to lead a critical white house office. he's now the director of the office of management and budget, a position that he previously held during trump's first term. people don't really think much about russell vote or the office of management and budget, but this guy has caught people's attention in the past for his apparent support of christian nationalism or something like it. as he tried to explain in this video that was captured by undercover journalists for the center for climate reporting. >> my viewpoint is mostly that i would probably be christian nation ism. that's pretty close to christian nationalism, because i also believe in nationalism. >> just let that sink in for a second. i also believe in nationalism. this man is now a top government official. vote explained his stance more thoroughly, by the way, in a 2021 essay for newsweek titled is there anything actually wrong with christian nationalism? yes, actually, in a nation where the very first line of the very first amendment to its constitution states very specifically and unambiguously quote, congress shall make no law

views it as a power center through which all of his ideology and all of project 2025 is going to be implemented. to think of the office of management and budget as a place to fight wokeness and marxist equity? i don't know what any of that means, but i think a lot of us know the previous omb director, she was really well regarded by both sides of the aisle. i think the presiding officer actually knew her from louisiana. and you know, like she was left of center, but she would never say anything other than what is sort of straight down the middle as it relates to the office of management and budget. and that's why -- why would we take the floor for the omb director? well, it's because he's the author of project 2025, he's essentially the architect behind the federal funds freeze, and in project 2025 among all the things they talk about, they also devote a huge passage to how important omb is and how powerful the next omb director should be. it just so happens that the author of that section saying the omb director should be like pretty close to all powerful and essentially representing the president in all things, policy and budget. it so happ

but you know the chief engineer of the office and management -- office of management and budget, the architect of this entire strategy that president trump is laying out, that is very important as well. so we asked for a public hearing or discussion so that members could talk to each other, share their concerns, maybe persuade each other, though not often enough we listen to each other, and the result was from the chair of the budget committee no, we're not holding a public dialogue about whether people think he should be confirmed. so the vote was held, tiny room. i think one reporter was allowed in. no public was allowed in. no extended press core. no dialogue between the members. we asked a reasonable request that this be done publicly and that was denied. i'm sorry to the american public that you were excluded because you would have heard then what you're hearing from me now, and you'll hear from members of the democrats oef the next 30 hours -- -- over the next 30 hours how unfit this individual is to serve in any government role. so we're here tonight on through now, through th

they just confirmed the architect of that to be the head of the office of management and budget. senate democrats held the floor all night last night to protest russell vote's confirmation, and reminded us that russell vote isn't just some small government numbers geek. russell vote. the head of the office of management and budget, was at the heart of donald trump's first attempt to throw the 2020 election. >> this is the guy. who violated. >> the impoundment. >> control act. by withholding 214 million appropriated dollars from the soldiers fighting and dying in the trenches of. ukraine against putin's thug army. it was that stunt that. led to the impeachment. of president trump. i asked him, did joe biden. >> win the 2020. >> presidential election? >> what was his answer? i believe. that the. 2020 election was rigged. >> no court has ever believed. that people got their. >> bar ticket removed for. >> telling courts falsehoods that the election. was rigged. this was the first big. >> lie of. >> the trump. >> administration. >> and he's. >> not over it. >> and he wants. >> to. go a

and we're going to make the government more efficient. we've got to have leadership of the office of management and budget. >> republicans say votes confirmationkey to their efforts to slash federal spending, which is already underway. reporting in washington on trevor shirley. >> and effective immediately. the ncaa has changed its participation policy for transgender athletes, limiting competition in women's sports to athletes assigned female at birth. only the move comes one day after president trump signed an executive order giving federal agencies the freedom to withhold funding from organizations that do not follow the trump administration's views. the ncaa policy change applies to all athletes regardless of previous eligibility reviews, the ncaa is part of more than 1000 schools with more than 500,000 athletes. the u.s. department of education is investigating san jose state for possible violations of title 9 over the alleged participation of a transgender athlete on the women's volleyball team. saturday states president said the university is committed to ensuring the fair treatment of all of its students and we'll engage fully with the

and difficult. listen to a smattering as to what of some of these senators have said over these past 25 hours. >> if russell vote is confirmed to lead the office of management and. >> budgetfamilies in america that pay the price. >> vote has shown complete disregard. >> for democratic institutions. >> behind every one of these budget lines are people. people who will be hurt if the president. >> and mr. vote get their way and cut off federal grants. >> one of the reasons why. >> leader after leader came to the. >> senate floor was. to show. >> that this is not usual times, these. >> are not usual times. >> and so why are they so opposed to russell vote? well, there's a long list of reasons, perhaps one of the biggest being that he was one of the architects and coauthors of that very controversial project 2025 agenda that came out during the campaign. he also has very, very controversial ideas about the role of the executive branch and the way that they spend the money that congress is appropriated. he believes that the president has wide discretion over how that money is spent outside of what's been appropriated by law, and something that you already see. the trump admini

unfortunately there many decisions and many recommendations and many are the national interests. as the next head of the office of management and budgete fierce pushback from democrats. they see mr vought as being at the heart of president trump's agenda. the role is one of the most influential positions administration of the $6.75 trillion federal budget. up federal spending. it was rescinded amid legal challenges. longer have to pay. complaining of excessive fees and claiming that china controls it. that wasn't true. neither the government nor the panama canal authority proposal for a so—called buyout for federal workers until at least monday. of "deferred resignation". "we are grateful to thejudge for extending the deadline during that period. illinois is one of several us states rejecting donald trump's plans for mass deportations. as well as chicago. federal immigration agents. and is challenging illinois state laws, as well as chicago city laws, that hamper police from cooperating with ice. chicago has a vast immigrant population , some of whom have democratic congressman jesus "chuy" garcia of illinois represents a district cov

of americans? and senate democrats. >> are in the. >> middle of an all night and early morning protest inside the capitol and on the senate floor. >> over the. >> president's nominee to lead the office of management and budget. the question is, will this delay tactic get the attention or even the result they're. hoping for? it's way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that knows plenty about working late nights on capitol hill. bring your celsius, guys. i'm ali vitali on this thursday, february 6th and we'll start with the news. elon musk's department of government. efficiency now has restricted their access to information in the treasury department's payment system. attorneys for the. >> justice department. >> agreed to temporary limits late last night, but it comes after a group of union members and retirees. sued the treasury department. >> they were. >> alleging that doj's access to the federal government's massive payment and collection system, as well as the personal data housed within it, violated federal privacy laws. the order would allow exceptions for two special government employees at the treasury, tom krause and marco velez, saying they're permitted access a

republicans just waited around for them to be done talking and then voted yes to confirm him as the next director of the office of management and budget trying to do is draw attention to their concerns about his actions, but they're also attempting legal maneuvers to try and stand in the way of some of the actions that he's taking. they're filing lawsuits. many of the unions that represent some of these federal workers that are impacted by this are filing lawsuits. the question is, will the damage already be done before the courts can take action? now, republicans, on the other hand, say this is what donald trump ran on. he promised to cut the budget. he promised to do it immediately, and that he's looking under the hood of the federal government to find areas of waste. and it's russell vogt's job to prevent that waste from further continuing. obviously, this is a back and forth that's going to continue for some time. but right now, chris, republicans and the trump administration are in the driver's seat. it may be some time before the rest of the american public sees the full impact of these decisions that they're making. >> chris ry

and fiscal projection by the congressional budget office, 75 year projections by the board of trustees for social security and medicare 75 year physical fiscal projections developed by the office of management got cbo, gao you've got the omb you've got all of the big alphabet soup's that matter. what are they say? the debt was about 97% of the gdp at the end of fiscal year 22. whawhat is that mean? gdp is all the value of the economy the private economy creates. reduction of products and services. 97% of that equals our annual debt. so we are barely producing enough to outpace the debt each year. but that's 2022 according to gao simulation is on track to reach a historical high of 106% in 2029212% by 2050 without any change that gao estimates the debt will reach 625% of gdp in 2096. when your grandchildren are the age of 50 or 60 the economy will not exist anymore. it is dead. it is completely dead. that is the burden we are placing on them. honestly while the republican parties participating in this, they are the only party that's trying to fix it we will raise taxes that won't even come close to fixing this. not even close. if nothing is done to reduce the future deficit the debt burden w

senate floor making their case against russell vought, the president's nominee to lead the office of management and budget and a key author of project 2025, which calls for drastic cuts to medicare, medicaid, and social security. >>> and protesters took to the streets in cities across the country rallying against the american institutions and decimate the civil service. cbs' jarred hill joins us now with details. jarred, good morning. now, we've heard trump advisers talk about this strategy called flood the zone, where president trump takes so many drastic actions at once that his opponents and the public can't keep up. >> yeah, the idea here is folks only have so much time and energy to focus on one particular thing, michael. as the courts tackle the legal challenges to trump's orders, congressional democrats, as we saw, are stalling cabinet confirmations and looking to leverage the slim gop majority to impact legislation. all while the white house is pushing ahead with its plan to shrink the federal workforce. at the white house president donald trump continued to make good on his promise to change the

in his chapter of project 2025 on how to wield executive office of president, vote wrote that omb, the office of management and budget should operate as the president's mind, adding it's vital the omb director and his political staff, not the careerists, drive these offices in pursuit of the president's actual priorities. just moments ago, all 53 senate republicans voted in lockstep to confirm russell vote as director of the powerful office of management and budget. all 47 senate democrats and independents voted against vogt's confirmation. each of them shouted their reason for voting no, in turn being shut down by the senate's presiding officer. >> miss hassan. >> pursuant to. >> rule 12, no debate is permitted. >> during a vote, the. senator will suspend. >> mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. >> pursuant to. >> rule 12, no debate. >> is permitted during a vote. >> mr. hickenlooper. >> pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during. >> a vote. >> the senator will suspend. >> mr. rono. >> pursuant to rule 12, no debate is permitted during a vote. the senator will suspend. >> today's protest came after 30 straight hours of

administration democrat are drawing roadblocks into the confirmation of russell vought to head the office of management and budgetey boycotted in your budget committee this week. watch. >> as long as russellville is donald trump's pick for a would-be director, americans can be virtually certain, he will try again to illegally seize funding for their communities. >> we are here together instead and were calling on the full senate to reject ross votes nomination. >> what you make of summit democrats rejection to vote in the link that you're going to have to go to on monday just to get him confirmed. the other thing that they said and they want to decrease funding isn't that the point of what donald trump wants to do right now? >> more importantly what they ask him to do on november 5 this is what the clearly and unequivocally voted for, i think the democrats skipping the budget committee meeting yesterday was childish and completely unnecessary, it is rich coming from democrats to allow president biden to illegally forgive student debt even after the supreme court ruled unconstitutional they need to set this out, f

last night on capitol hill, the senate voted to confirm russ vought for the office of management and budget. he was a key architecture of the controversial project 2025. during confirmation hearing in the past he has said he believes president trump can withhold spending that congress has already authorized. something we're hearing a lot of complaints about, frances. back to you. >>> homeland security chief kristi noem is heading to guantanamo bay today. president trump has said he wants to send tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants to the notorious camp in cuba. at least 23 have been flown there. her visit comes as trump faces new backlash in his push to end birthright citizenship. a judge blocking that order. the u.s. district judge in seattle putting the order on hold nationwide for the duration of lawsuits brought by four states and an immigration rights grou the justice department is appealing the ruling. >>> backlash also mounting this morning over president trump's controversial proposal to take over gaza. mr. trump doubled down on that plan thursday, adding he would not send

vote now oversees the white house office of management and budget. he will have influence over much of the president's domestic agenda. republicans say he's going to make government smaller and more efficient. democrats claim he will follow the principles laid out in project 2025. which include getting social security, medicaid and medicare. votes. confirmation is just one piece of the trump administration's quest to re straight reshape and shrink the federal government. one of the key drivers of the effort. >> of course, as billionaire elon musk correspondent the day simlot reports now from washington. >> those moves have rankled democrats who this week have held protests at the usa id building, the department of treasury and the department of education. but president donald trump says elon musk is doing what he's asked of him. >> lot is doing a great job. high marks for billionaire elon musk from president donald trump who tasked him with trimming the size of the federal government. the pair posted a photo from the white house with tv host tucker ca

and is it proper for the office of management and budget in the executive office of the president to the fiscal authority of the united states of america and -- remember this guy has this theory that he's the king's hand. he represents what the president thinks in all manners. right? and i remember i've been a lieutenant governor, and i remember my governor, a very good friend of mine still, used to say, not for everything, by the way, but only on specific things, we'd be in a meeting he says, he has all my authority on this. it was very generous of him. he delegated that to the lieutenant governor and i could represent hem. what this guy is saying, this omb director represents the president of the united states in all matters. and will use it to the push back on woke powers. that is not a proper use of presidential power or a proper view of presidential power. the omb director does not represent the president in all things. that's preposterous. the guy writing this was going i'm going to be omb director, i might as well represent to the world i'm all powerful. but also what the hell

>> reporter: democrats are also protesting russell vogt's nomination to lead the office of management and budget, delivering speeches late into the night on the senate floor, in fact, promising an all-night session. vogt was a co-author of prect 2025 and president trump has described him as an aggressive cost cutter. a final vote is expected today. and he is expected to be approved along party lines. frances? >> alice, thank you. >>> the drastic changes in washington, d.c. have federal workers all across the country feeling shocked and panicked. hallie jackson spoke to some of them. >> reporter: from fury to fear. >> will my position remain? >> reporter: a range of reactions from federal workers. >> none of this is okay. >> reporter: as the president pushes to scale back the size of government across all agencies, including usaid, which officially terminated kristina dry. >> it's heartbreaking. because we know that people are going to be less healthy, less safe, through no choice of our own. >> reporter: what does this mean for your life for the short term here? >> yeah, i think in 10, 15 days,

internal email obtained by abc news that was sent by russell vought, the new director of the office of management and budget. dodge staffers now temporarily blocked from accessing the treasury department's data and payment systems. a federal judge making the move in response to 19 states suing the trump administration for giving musk and his allies access to sensitive personal data, including social security numbers and bank account information of millions of americans. a federal judge also pumping the brakes on musk's and trump's goal to dismantle usaid, the relief agency that provides desperately needed food and medicine to millions of people around the world. in an interview with fox news host bret baier, trump hailed musk for his efforts. >> he's not gaining anything. in fact, i wonder how he can devote the time to it. he's so into it. >> trump adding the department of education is next on the agenda. republicans defending musk's involvement. >> and the fact that we have elon musk looking from the private sector into the public sector, advising the president in ways that we can find ways to reduce overa

internal email obtained by abc news that was sent by russell vought, the new director of the office of management and budget. dodge staffers now temporarily blocked from accessing the treasury department's data and payment systems. a federal judge making the move in response to 19 states suing the trump administration for giving musk and his allies access to sensitive personal data, including social security numbers and bank account information of millions of americans. a federal judge also pumping the brakes on musk's and trump's goal to dismantle usaid, the relief agency that provides desperately needed food and medicine to millions of people around the world. in an interview with fox news host bret baier, trump hailed musk for his efforts. >> he's not gaining anything. in fact, i wonder how he can devote the time to it. he's so into it. >> trump adding the department of education is next on the agenda. republicans defending musk's involvement. >> and the fact that we have elon musk looking from the private sector into the public sector, advising the president in ways that we can find ways to reduce overa

honor to be nominated a second time by president trump to serve as the director of the office of management and budgetthe president has promised the american people a federal government that works for all americans, not the interests of bureaucrats and entrenched establishment. making a start in fulfilling that vital promised during my previous time at omb has -- as both deputy director and director was the most rewarding career experiences of my career. throughout that time, i have been driven by a commitment to taxpayers and their families. growing up a son of a knot tuition and school teacher, i saw firsthand the sacrifices my parents made to balance their budget and save for the future. they are a reminder of the burden government spending can place on everyday americans. my parents and countless others like them have always been the measure by which i evaluate policies and spending decisions. today, nearly 80% of americans do not feel confident that their children will lead better lives than they have. nearly double the 40% of americans who said the same two decades ago. when i look at the govern

the floor wasting their time throughout the night protesting drums picked to lead the office of management and budgetticut senator brought back the left campaign talking point declaring a post that democracy is on the line constitutional crisis he was screaming the other day of course of their efforts went to no avail as he was confirmed earlier this evening and is set to be sworn in tomorrow. with reaction me at the judiciary chairman jim jordan a former white house chief of staff mark meadows is only one way to put this as the band back together the founders of the freedom caucus back together and it's a great moment. >> without a doubt. do a start with the chief they headed the judiciary committee at start to tell headed the judiciary chief i will start with you welcome back it's been a while since we've had you hear and it's a very predictable i think what he's done is a great service to the country the average american makes 66 grand a year i don't know what the average north carolinian makes 66 grand a year isn't much they pay a lot in taxes same for the people of ohio and when you see hundreds

>> reporter: it did complicate them because that confusing back and forth with the office of management and budgetly paused funding, it was an unforced error that has complicated the confirmation of the new budget director, russ vought. a hill source told me it was sloppy, clumsy, poorly thought out, and didn't have a good reception among fellow republicans. keep in mind, republicans have the senate majority. they don't need a single democratic vote to confirm nominees. they just have t stay united. >> john: okay. margaret brennan in washington, thank you so much, margaret. and a reminder to join margaret this sunday for "face the nation." >> maurice: in southern california, cal fire reports the palisades and eaton fires blame for 29 deaths this month are nearly 100% contained. >> john: that means firefighters have just about stopped them from spreading, with help from some rain. lonnie quinn, tell us about that rain. >> well, that rain that you are referring to, the atmospheric river has set up, but this atmospheric river, pretty clear to see here, this is channeling up towards northern californi

the hub is the office of management and budget. and this man was a coauthor. and i think the lead author. of project 2025, we warned about those 900 pages before the election of most people that i talked to, uh, didn't think it would ever come to pass. now we know there's not a single thing that we've seen in the last two weeks. that was not foretold in project 2025. i referred to it as the national democratic convention. that project 2025 was jim crow 2.0. and now we see it. it is a it is wrong to talk about the achievements of african americans in this country, even trying to whitewash the pictures on the walls, the stuff they said about the tuskegee airmen. look, that's the kind of stuff of which autocracies are born. and we saw saw it foretold in project 2025. >> congressman jim clyburn of south carolina, thanks for joining us today. we appreciate it. we're talking next about that setback for president trump. today. a judge blocking his resignation offer for federal employees. the lawyer for union representing many of those federal workers is going to join

and meet johnson's own april timeline. later tonight, the republican-led senate is expected to confirm another trump nominee. the director of the office management and budgethear how bad russell vote is. >> democrats protested his nomination through the night. >> he's on a mission to get the -- gut the federal government and is the chief architect of the controversial 2025 plan. for the pbs news hour, laura burrell lopez. ♪ vanessa: here are the latest headlines for news hour west, an update to our top story, the senate confirmed russell vote to leave the office of management and budget, along party lines. he previously held the role during trump's first term and was the primary author of project 2025. in college sports, the ncaa updating his -- updating their transgender policy to limit women's competition to athletes who were assigned as female at birth. the change comes a day after president trump signed an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes from from girls and women sports. the policy is effective immediately and applies to all 500,000 ncaa athletes across the organization's 1200 schools. president trump signed an executive order thi

this badly worded order from the office of management and budget which has now been enjoined or rescinded, but there is -- it is a troubling feature. there is a more general issue which is president trump has acted as if since he won, he ought to be able to put on pause any flow of federal funding that he does not like. put that way, that is not right. that is illegal under the impoundment control act and unconstitutional. but the way he has gone about it so far has been so unclear that it's unclear even if he wanted to impound some of these funds. i tend to give him a pass on that, some of these orders were unclear even if the president knew about them. but, there are a people associated with the administration who somehow believe that the impoundment control act that congress enacted in the watergate era there's a reason we keep talking about it. is unconstitutional. and i don't follow that reasoning and i don't think it is right. the supreme court in a previous decision written by justice thomas lee declared that congress has control of the purse and i don't think these impoundments ar

of the budget committee. you and other democrats boycotted the vote of. russ vought for the office of management and budget on the russ vought vote. do you believe any of your republican colleagues will have the courage to oppose any of these confirmations? and which one worries you the most? >> so you mentioned that two there with rfk jr. i do think he poses a great risk to the public health of people throughout the country because of his conspiracy theories on vaccines. i'm proud to represent maryland. we're home to the nih and the fda. these are people who work every day to try to develop treatments and cures to diseases that impact the country, including vaccines. and rfk s spread of misinformation will put american lives at risk. i'm glad you mentioned russ vote because he's gotten less attention. probably because republicans will vote for him. as you said, we boycotted the voting session in committee because the chairman of the committee, senator lindsey graham, refused to conduct the hearing and the voting session in public. we think it's important that people know who russ vote is and wh

this comes after senate republicans confirmed him to lead the office of management and budget, and hethe coauthor of project 2025. donald trump says he wants to bring faith back to the white house. on thursday at the national prayer breakfast, he announced a new faith office. he says it will strengthen ties between the federal government and faith based groups. he is also targeting a task force to investigate what he says is anti-christian bias. trump signed an executive order on the issues later that day. now he accuses the biden administration of targeting christians. the executive order cited convictions of anti-abortion demonstrators blocking access to abortion clinics. he also claims the department of education sought to repeal religious liberty protections for faith based organizations on college campuses. >> the mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the doj, which was absolutely terrible. the irs, the fbi, terrible, and other agencies. >> trump's attorney genera

and we're going to see much more of this. just last night, by the way, the administration stopped the office of through the office of management and budgetau that protects everybody's banking. okay. stop. don't do any more work. so watch out. i mean, pull up a chair and expect lots of things to happen. and we'll just have to see about any reaction. and we'll have to see if congress even steps in. because if people are arguing this is unconstitutional, it's not like the constitution can stand up and say, that's right, it's not. congress has to step in and do something about it. unfortunately, we have to leave it there. larry, as always, great to see you. 53 past the hour right now. up next, we have a quick look at our top stories, including a california lawmaker taking action after president trump's hiring freeze on federal jobs and how he thinks it would impact the fire fht inig top stories we're following on this sunday morning, including will president trump's hiring freeze on federal jobs impacts the fire fight in california? last month, the president signed an executive order preventing any new federal hires, meaning there will be no

head of the office of management and budget russ vought who is acting director of the cfpb immediatelyhis cutting off the funding to directed staff to not issued any new rules and stop any new investigation. this was elizabeth warren's brainchild but what do they do? what have they done. >> cause problems for the free market trying to invest in stocks and made banking difficult. i don't know what more beside that that they did. i want to focus on something else, clay travis, our colleague raise this point with shannon bream nobody was the brightest business minded the world sending into your house for free and go over your finance and finding problems much less any fraud you would welcome that 100 times out of a hundred but the left is telling elon musk and no such certain terms we don't even want you to uncover fraud we dislike you this much. think about that the left would rather have fraudulent payments going to lord knows who for lord knows what and not sad in the terrific. >> not only that but they have all the stories out elon musk is seen all your private information you know wh

despite senate democrats holding a 30 over protest president trump's cabinet picked for the office of management and budgette spoken for along party lines the votes will be sworn in this morning he will play a pivotal role in reducing spending and reallocating funds alongside elon musk's doge. democrats taking the fight to the courts the federal judge the midi the agencies access to the treasury department payment system after three union groups filed a lawsuit, another judge temporarily delaying president trump's federal employee buyout deadline that deadline is extended until monday it was supposed to end last night those who take the deal will receive pay benefits through september 30 the white house responding to the ruling, we are grateful to the judge for extending the device more federal workers who refuse to show to the office on the very generous once-in-a-lifetime offer about 60000 employees accepted this offer and the white house expects that number to grow, meanwhile usaid u.s. aid, those employees are expected to be laid off today and drastically that cuts the agency for more than 10000 worker

out in which all these agencies, the national security agencies, had to report to the office of management and budgetes of officers under their probationary periods. and there's also the notion of those throughout the federal government who are going to get this kind of fork in the road or have gotten this fork in the road memo, which is encouraging people to retire or to take an early out. and so, you know, ultimately, this just makes america less safe. these are men and women in the national security profession who put their heads down every day and really work for the safety and security of fellow americans. and let me say one thing about about the fbi and why i think this is so outrageous. there are members who are special agents who worked on what's called the joint terrorism task forces. this is the entities around the country that that look at organizations like isis, al qaeda, hamas and hezbollah. and at some point in their careers, they were put on january 6th cases. the idea that we would eviscerate, that we would fire many of these, these special agents is just going to make america less s

of the week. and this is now coming as. >> the just. >> confirmed director. >> of the office. >> of management and budget, russell. ook control of that agency and shut down all of its activities. so that's happening overnight. while, as you noted, the next that. >> is set for. >> targeting and potentially. slashing is the department of education. over the weekend, some democratic lawmakers tried to get in to that department and were turned away. they have concerns about what cuts may be coming. president trump on the campaign trail talked a lot about shutting down the. federal education department and sending those responsibilities back to the states. he's also talking about going to the defense department and looking through their looking through the military for any areas. of fraud or wasteful spending, as he's put it. and that could be these are much bigger departments that we're talking about now, defense and education, as. >> opposed to. >> smaller cuts that have come, as i mentioned, at the consumer financial protection bureau and of course, at usaid, the foreign aid, if you're really talking about larger cut

and women of the country. those working hard everyday in cities and towns across america deserve a government that empowers them to achieve their dreams. while office of management and budget might not be a household term. the agencies work profoundly impacts their lives. i will serve with the best interest at heart striving to make sure we have a more prosperous future for all americans. i look forward to answering your questions and how omb can deliver on that mission. >> thank you very much and to your family, welcome. so, to start with, what would happen to the economy if the 2017 tax cuts that were passed, expire and go away? >> americans would have a higher tax increase on their hands. we would have a worstenning economy. i don't want to predict how bad it would be. >> it's catastrophic, do you agree? >> i do. >> one thing we want to do on our side. it's $4.5 trillion in taxes. >> we don't want it to go away, i guess they do. do you have a say about regulations. >> they run the office of american affairs. charged to set up the president's deregulatory agenda. >> when it comes to energy production will you pledge oratory to make it easier for america to soundly and sa