{"id":23173,"date":"2025-10-11T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=23173"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:50:14","slug":"schumer-merkley-murray-peters-call-on-trump-budget-chief-russ-vought-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/schumer-merkley-murray-peters-call-on-trump-budget-chief-russ-vought-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer, Merkley, Murray, Peters Call On Trump Budget Chief Russ Vought To Resign\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Washington DC<\/em><\/strong><em> \u2013 Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and US Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice-Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released&nbsp;the <\/em><em>following joint statement calling for the resignation of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEven before his first day in office, Russ Vought has made it the Trump administration\u2019s mission to undermine the Constitution and disregard the rule of law. By impounding billions of dollars in appropriated funding and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece. He is bent on punishing federal workers who protect our national security and deliver vital services to every American by pushing for agencies to fire thousands of nonpartisan public servants during the Republican shutdown.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t simply a policy disagreement between Congress and the White House. Vought\u2019s weaponization of the federal government and disregard for the rule of law threatens the very checks and balances that make our system of government work. He is unfit to serve, and he must resign.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and US Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice-Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released&nbsp;the following joint statement calling for the resignation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-23173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-budget"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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