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Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought sparred with lawmakers Tuesday over the Trump administration\u2019s plan to impose ideological rules on the federal grant approval process.<\/p>\n

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Vought, the author who oversaw President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial cuts to the federal government last year, faced intense scrutiny from House Appropriations Democrats, who argued his agency\u2019s new grant rule is little more than \u201can attempt to subject all federal funding to a political litmus test,\u201d as Rep. Rosa DeLauro said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder your proposed rule, a recipient must quote \u2018demonstrably advance the president\u2019s policy priorities,\u2019 end quote,\u201d DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said in her opening statement. \u201cNot the country\u2019s, and not the law\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vought\u2019s agency proposed a rule in the Federal Register in May that would put political appointees in place of the industry experts tasked with approving complicated federal grant awards for everything from local governments to healthcare research and education. The appointees would evaluate the \u201calignment of Federal awards with administration priorities,\u201d and have the power to scrap or cancel federal grant funding at any point and for any reason, according to the rule proposal.<\/p>\n

The new evaluation criteria, a White House priority billed as a means of preventing taxpayer dollars from \u201cwoke\u201d use, swiftly emerged as the defining topic as Vought testified.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about grants that have been explicitly funded by Congress?\u201d Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez asked as she pressed Vought over whether the OMB will cancel funds secured by lawmakers for specific improvement projects in their districts.<\/p>\n

Vought said those projects would \u201cprobably be at the top of the list that needs to be funded.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the exception of earmarked funding did little to assuage the concern of lawmakers who argued that Trump\u2019s renovation projects across Washington are more of a waste of taxpayer dollars than any federal grant program could be. <\/p>\n

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\u201cYou have hijacked billions from investments to maintain U.S. military superiority in the future, and you have taken over $400 million in taxpayer funding from the Secret Service to pay for the president\u2019s ballroom project,\u201d DeLauro said, referring to Trump asking Senate Republicans to provide him with $400 million for White House security upgrades and a bunker underneath the ballroom.<\/p>\n

Trump and his Cabinet have consistently claimed that the construction of a gilded ballroom in the White House\u2019s East Wing, the troubled renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, repairs to the Kennedy Center, proposed painting of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and myriad other projects in D.C. are not reliant on taxpayer dollars. But a New York Times analysis based on project summaries showed significant taxpayer cost associated with each project. <\/p>\n

Vought was also grilled over the workforce reductions his agency oversaw across the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pledged to reverse amid bipartisan concern. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we make sure that we have a robust, effective, cost-effective CISA force? Because I don\u2019t think anybody thinks we have it now,\u201d Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., asked after describing the layoffs at the agency.<\/p>\n

Vought said it \u201ctakes time\u201d to increase staff, and likened the administrative issues at CISA to those at his own agency, which he repeatedly said needs more employees. <\/p>\n

Also at issue were USDA-confirmed reports that flesh-eating New World screwworm has returned to the U.S. for the first time in decades. The parasite can be devastating to cattle herds because it lays eggs in the open wounds of living mammals that feed on healthy tissues, according to the Agriculture Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many of these staff worked on the New World screwworm surveillance research and other such activities that were intended to prevent the parasite from reentering the United States?\u201d Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., asked Vought, referring to swaths of employees who left USDA amid the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s deferred resignation program last year.<\/p>\n

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Vought did not directly answer the question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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