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WATCH: Vought deflects question on presidential emergency powers | Trump confirmation hearings
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January 15, 2025
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0:54Now PlayingRussell Vought, nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, didn’t say whether he would support efforts to curb presidential emergency powers in his confirmation hearing Wednesday held by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and ranking member of the committee, asked Vought if he would “ensure that Congress has a rightful say in the use of emergency powers.”
In response, Vought said he wouldn’t speak to future legislation, but that OMB would take a position on any legislation as it came across President-elect Donald Trump's desk.
“Congress provided the laws that the president uses to declare emergencies. If Congress wants to make changes to those laws, that’s their prerogative to do, and the administration will consider those and have a position if those bills get to his desk,” Vought said.
Vought, a Project 2025 co-author, briefly led OMB at the end of Trump’s first term. The agency may play a larger role in Trump’s second term as the incoming president has promised to dramatically cut the federal workforce.
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