Chris Coons: “I have joined my colleagues on the floor today. We have held the floor all night speaking out against the nomination of…”

“I have joined my colleagues on the floor today. We have held the floor all night speaking out against the nomination of Russell Vought to lead the OMB, the most powerful Federal Agency you have never heard of, because it has the power to suspend payments, to direct funding, to cut things off, or to make funding flow. Russell Vought has a plan, it is called Project 2025, and it laid out how if President Trump were reelected--although he disavowed it on the campaign trail, he is implementing it now as President--he would issue Executive order after Executive order to slash Federal funding and shut down Federal programs. I have spoken about how this is impacting Federal aid all over the world, foreign assistance, and how that is making us less safe and less secure; how those who cheer are the Chinese and Russians, the human traffickers and the drug cartels; and I have read from e-mails, calls, letters that I have gotten in my offices in Delaware and here in Washington, the alarm, the embarrassment, the concern of folks being pushed out of the Federal workforce and whose partners and programs are being shut down. We will be less safe. We will be less strong. We will be less the America that we all promise we will work hard to be if Russell Vought is confirmed to lead the OMB.…”