Tell Hawley and Schmitt: Reject Russell Vought as OMB Director!

The Office of Management and Budget is often called the "most important agency you’ve never heard of" because it really does hold a lot of power — coordinating policy across all government, overseeing budgets, and more. Russell Vought has an even more expansive view of the agency’s power — he views it as the “nerve center” of the federal bureaucracy and believes that under the right leadership (his), it can totally bypass Congress and give Trump king-like powers. He wrote an entire chapter about it in Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation blueprint for an autocratic second Trump term. This week, you witnessed his plans put into action — and the mayhem it caused here in Missouri as millions who rely on government grants nearly had their lives, businesses, and education upended. You need to understand that a yes for Vought is a yes for the exact funding freeze that was just rescinded. No amount of expert questioning during a senate hearing could have better illustrated the danger Vought poses. We all witnessed it. I demand that you vote NO on his confirmation.