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    Biden OMB Nominee Neera Tanden Will Expand Left’s Power Through Big Government Bureaucracy

    President Joe Biden’s pick for the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, participated Tuesday in one of her two Senate committee hearings. If our senators fail to recognize and defend their duty to preserve democratic power for the American people and allow Tanden to hold this position, we can expect her…
    May Davis
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    Nikki Haley Criticizes Biden’s OMB Pick, Neera Tanden

    Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley criticized former Vice President Joe Biden’s choice of Neera Tanden to serve in his administration. “Tanden has shown bad judgment in the past. She said that @realDonaldTrump is ‘part of [a] conspiracy against [the] US’ & has a track record of disparaging Rep Senators,” Haley tweeted Tuesday….
    Mary Rose Corkery
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    Trump Picks Acting Budget Chief Russ Vought as OMB Director

    President Donald Trump will nominate his acting budget director, Russ Vought, to serve as permanent director of the Office of Management and Budget.  Trump announced Wednesday that he intends to nominate Vought, who was a fiscal conservative long before joining the administration. The move comes in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and skyrocketing levels…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump OMB Nominee, Attacked for Faith, Finally Heads for Confirmation Vote

    President Donald Trump’s nominee for a key budget position, stalled by senators on both sides of the aisle, finally will get a vote next week. The Senate likely will confirm the president’s nomination of Russ Vought to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget after a cloture vote Monday. Sen. Bernie Sanders,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Cornyn Releases Hold on Trump’s Pick for Deputy Director of OMB

    A senator from Texas is no longer holding up the nomination of President Donald Trump’s pick to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. “He’s lifted his hold on the nomination of Russ Vought,” an aide to Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, confirmed to The Daily Signal in an email Friday….
    Rachel del Guidice
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    OMB Chief Mulvaney Defends Trump Administration’s Progress

    Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said he has high expectations for the Trump administration despite the challenges of governing at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday. “I think at the end of the day, despite the internal difficulties that the House may be having at any particular time, the internal…
    Paul Runko
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    OMB Director Set to Tell Agencies to Prep for Substantial Cuts

    Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is reportedly slated to send a letter to federal agencies later this week warning them to prep for substantial budget cuts. The guidance letter falls in line with President Donald Trump’s March 13 executive order aimed at making the government leaner and more efficient, Axios first reported. The order…
    Juliegrace Brufke
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    Senate Confirms Mick Mulvaney as OMB Director

    The Senate voted 51-49 Thursday to confirm Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., who will be tasked with addressing the nation’s $20 trillion in national debt, as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Mulvaney, a Republican representing South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District in the House since 2011, will be responsible for directing the budget process…
    Rachel del Guidice
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