Boyle, Budget Democrats Demand Vought Testify Before Committee
Trump Budget Head and Project 2025 Author Fails to Appear Before Committee as Families Lose Health Care and Face Rising Costs
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, led all Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought demanding his immediate testimony before the Committee. The request follows the Committee’s November 18 hearing, where Chairman Jodey Arrington publicly agreed with Ranking Member Boyle that Director Vought must appear.
“As you continue to disregard the law and withhold essential resources from communities across the country, you owe this Committee an explanation for why you believe you possess such authority,” wrote Ranking Member Boyle and Committee Democrats.
“If you fail to appear before this Committee before the end of the year, this will be the only Administration in the last 50 years to not send the OMB Director — a basic standard you yourself met during President Trump’s first Administration (appearing in both 2019 and 2020),” the letter continues. “If you disagree with both Chairman Arrington and Budget Democrats it will make one point unmistakably clear: you know you cannot defend an extreme agenda that is driving up costs, weakening the labor market, and inflicting real economic harm on the American people.”
Read the full letter to OMB Director Vought here.
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