The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, despite the panel’s 10 Democrats skipping the vote in protest.

Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee for budget chief, has a plan: cut taxes for the wealthy, eliminate regulations on corporate power, and slash spending on government programs the rest of the country depends on.

During the confirmation hearing for Trump's OMB nominee, Russell Vought in the Senate this week, Senator Mark Warner lost it on Vought over his past comments.

If Russell Vought is confirmed as Office of Management and Budget director, he will continue to enact and accelerate the radical, sweeping agenda he began to implement in that same position during the final two years of the first Trump administration.

Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testified Wednesday before the Senate Budget Committee for his confirmation

Russell Vought, President Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, discussed how he wants to tackle "government waste" and use taxpayer dollars "wisely" during his opening statement at his Senate confirmation hearing.

Vought was OMB director during Trump’s first term. He already had a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Democrats opposed a now-rescinded funding freeze by Trump and refused to show up for OMB nominee Russell Vought's confirmation hearing.

Senate Republicans advanced the nomination of Russell Vought to lead the White House budget office as Democrats boycotted the meeting to protest the administration’s recent efforts to freeze

The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.

President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation .