Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaking with Newsmax before Wednesday’s confirmation hearings for Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, said the position is one of the most important in the administration.
“The Office of Management and Budget is the most important office no one has ever heard of,” Lankford, who sits on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said on “Wake Up America.” “Literally every regulation, every part of our budget all goes through that office.”
Lankford said he expects to hear Vought explain how Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans will be implemented, how government spending will be cut, and how the administration will ensure government regulations protect people, rather than “implementing pain” as “they have for the last four years.”
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