The Senate of the United States voted throughout the lines of match 53-47 to confirm Russell Vivit as director of the Management and Budget Office of the White House on February 6.
With the vote, Vought Returns to lead the same position as part of the first administration of President Donald Trump, and leaders of the contractor groups shared optimism that will help reduce regulatory obstacles for the construction industry despite construction industry. concern about federal projects funding.
Shadow usually fills a large part in the scene in the definition of policies, budgets and decisions, although the office recently raised controversy with a note of January 27 that ordered a “temporary pause” of the federal grant, the loan and other financial assistance programs. The White House terminated the note, which had already provided several legal challenges and that a federal judge has been temporarily blocked.
The note caused a widespread confusion among many different federal funding recipients, including the owners of some public and private construction projects funded in part with federal aid. The legislation passed during the administration of Biden, such as the Investment and Infrastructure jobs law, the Act of Reduction of Inflation and the Chips and Sciences Law put billions of dollars to numerous projects. Through transport, renewable energy, manufacture and other sectors.
Brian Turmail, Vice President of Public Affairs and Labor of the General Associated Contractors of America, says that, while writing the note seemed to put things like funding for formulas for road projects and at -risk traffic, with The group’s order awaiting the group’s funding will not be affected, as Shado reviews the discretionary financing priorities.
“It’s one of these positions in Washington that is not a home name, but it really has one of the broadest impacts on the economy,” says Turmail. “We have great expectations for [Vought]And we certainly hope that it will focus on the President’s deregulatory agenda and not distracted by some of the cultural wars that could consume a lot of oxygen in this city. “”
AGC also hopes that a shadow directed by VOURD will help reduce the regulatory requirements of the construction industry. Trump signed an executive order on January 31, saying that any agency that added a new rule, regulation or guidance must identify at least 10 people to be repealed, and the director of the Shadow has the order to examine Regulatory costs together with this.
Ben Brubeck, Vice President of the Regulation, Labor and State of the builders and contractors associated with builders and contractors. The group hopes to see the requirements for the work agreements of the project on federal contracts eliminated to relieve specialized labor shortages and reduce cost pressures to contractors.
The United States Federal Complaints Court last month was in favor of contractors who challenged the policy of former President Joe Biden, who demanded the agreements on federal construction projects of $ 35 million or more, in contracts in the L ‘U.S. General Services Administration. The United States Army Engineers Corps and US Naval Installation Engineering Systems, but the mandate “has not been terminated and continues to be valid for any other construction contract. On a large scale that was not part of this consolidated protest, “said Jacob Scott, a partner, a member Smith Currie Oles, the construction focus on construction and the federal.
“With Trump’s tax cuts before, as well as Trump’s regulatory efforts in their previous administration, the companies we spoke with were taking the money they were making a fulfillment and buying more teams, hiring new workers and increasing the His salary, “says Brubeck.
Policy Agenda
Outside of his work for the previous Trump administration, Vought has been involved in conservative political groups, such as the heritage action for America and the renewal center of America. He is one of the creators of the Ultra-Conservative Policy Agenda Project 2025. In the 2025 policy documents, he had his vision for a shadow that acts as a “Air Traffic Control System of the President with capacity and capacity. The burden to ensure all political initiatives fly in sync and authority to let the planes take off and sometimes land aircraft. “”
He said he emphasized his belief as shadow can direct the amount, duration and purpose of funding to federal agencies distributed by Congress. He told the Project 2025 policy documents that would be addressed to the distributions “signed by career officials”, saying that the Director of the Shadow “must consider his job as the best and most complete approach of the mind of the President, as he refers to the policy agenda while always ready with real options to make this agenda. “
Vought wrote that he would instead transfer the supervision to the directors associated with the program and divide the six resource management offices into smaller areas with more named ones that supervise them. This change could allow the White House to replace federal workers with appointed politicians. Trump had moved to reclassify tens of thousands of federal employees by executive order during his first administration.
Union opposition
The American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing 800,000 government workers, called on legislators to oppose the confirmation of Vought, emphasizing their first -term Trump work that led the collective bargaining agreements and agreements. The union says that it could “effectively annul the civil service system”.
Democrats sought to block Vought’s confirmation and celebrated the Senate flat at night to delay the most time as possible.
“If the chaos of the last two weeks is any indication of what will come, Russell Vough will become a mass responsibility for Donald Trump, for Republicans and, worst of all, for the country,” the minority leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer (dn.y.) Said in prepared observations.
The leader of most of most of the Senate, John Thune (Rs.d.), said in his statements before the vote he hopes that he will “be able to hit the ground” with efforts focused on reducing the regulations and spending. “
He added: “I know Mr. Vought will make him get rid of heavy regulations,” he said.
