Vought, Senate GOP at Odds Over More Partisan Spending Push

Senate Republicans and White House budget chief Russell Vought are openly clashing over the Trump administration’s push for a more partisan and combative approach to funding the federal government, a move that could complicate passing the annual spending bills and enacting more cuts.

Vought, director of the Office and Management and Budget, speaking at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning, said Republicans should go it alone without Democrats to cut spending, despite appropriations bills needing 60 votes to pass in the Senate.

“The appropriations process has to be less bipartisan. We’re $37 trillion in debt,” he said. “Who ...