Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, poses for a photo with Cabinet picks, other nominees and appointments, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Project 2025 contributing author Russell Vought is slated to resume his prior role of Office of Management and Budget director.

Donald Trump's choice to oversee the federal budget, Russell Vought, defended the U.S. president-elect's goal of cutting spending by refusing to spend money that Congress has already authorized at a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Vought noted that Trump instructed all agency heads in his first term to use the Schedule F classification, a move that he called “sound policy” to ensure that the president “has career civil servants that are going to give us all of their knowledge and expertise, and disagreement at times as to what they think about a potential proposal.”

Today in the Senate, Trump's OMB Director nominee Russell Vought delivered his opening remarks at his confirmation hearing.