Russ Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the powerful Office of Management and Budget (OMB), signaled a fight with Congress over executive authority on Wednesday, saying that Congress overstepped its authority in regard to the president’ ability to control appropriations.
While Republicans often focused on the national debt and the budget for the coming Trump term, Democrats tried to attack Vought for advocating greater executive authority over spending and civil service employment.
Many Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee focused their questioning on the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), a 1974 federal law blocking the executive branch from intentionally spending less money than was appropriated by Congress. Many credit the ICA for forcing the executive branch into a never-ending doom cycle
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