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Elizabeth Warren speaks during overnight Senate session to protest Vought’s nomination
Russell Vought, who has ties to Project 2025, was nominated to be director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke Wednesday evening during what Senate Democrats are promising to be an overnight marathon of speeches to protest the nomination of Russell Vought, who has ties to Project 2025, to lead the White House’s budget office.
Vought was nominated to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, which he previously held during part of President Donald Trump’s first term. Vought, a political advisor, previously served as vice president of Heritage Action for America, which lobbies for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, said during a speech on the Senate floor around 3:30 p.m. that the session would go overnight.
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“We want Americans every hour, whether it’s 8 p.m. or 3 a.m. to hear how bad Russell Vought is, and the danger he poses to them in their daily lives if he were put as head of OMB,” Schumer said.
Warren spoke for an hour Wednesday evening as part of the 30-hour hold to delay Vought’s nomination. She slammed Project 2025 and Vought’s role, calling him “one of the chief architects of Project 2025.”
“Donald Trump is rewarding him by inviting him into the government in order to carry out the Republican blueprint to make our government force people to live in the image that Russ Vought and other extremist Republicans approve of,” Warren said, “and he plans to rework our economy to benefit the wealthiest among us and make everybody else pay for it.”
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Warren described the impacts of Trump’s federal spending freeze on Massachusetts and other policies.
She said a nonprofit in Worcester couldn’t access their contracts. Early educators are scared of losing federal funding and the families they serve are “scared to separate from one another or even to go outside” while Trump ramps up immigration deportation plans, Warren said.
She also described a small business in Lynnfield and a cancer patient whose story was featured in The Boston Globe, who rely on grants and funding from the National Institutes of Health.
“Families everywhere, all across the country, in red states and blue states are feeling the impacts of these policies. Everyone,” Warren said.
Vought is expected to be confirmed Thursday evening. In a retort to California Senator Adam Schiff, Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, said “great.”
“See you on the floor at 7 pm tomorrow when we inevitably confirm (Russ Vought) for OMB Director,” he wrote on X.
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