This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

So as you guys probably know, Senate Democrats had an all-night session to protest Russell Votz confirmation as head of office and management and budget.

And it was really interesting. It was really fascinating. I give them credit for trying something, for trying anything.

But the Senate has confirmed Donald Trump's pick to lead the White House budget office.

Lawmakers voted this evening 53 to 47 to bring this godless rat bastard lying anti-democracy troglodyte,

Russ Vaught, to a second tour leading the office of management and budget.

Now, again, last time it went with this guy.

It didn't go so well, but this time Republicans were in lockstep behind Donald Trump.

And this guy now could forever alter how federal dollars get spent.

And their real goal, as we've seen over the past week,

seems to be literally defying the founders and taking the power of the purse away from members

of Congress. This is going to affect so many poor people, so many working people, and it's going

to affect a lot of Trump voters, too, who should have known better.

Give you one quote from Russell Vaught. He said, the right quote needs to throw off the precedents and legal paradigms that have wrongly developed over the last 200 years,

and to study carefully the words of the Constitution and how the founders would have responded in modern situations to the encroachments of other branches.

In other words, whatever the fuck we want.

It's a real pleasure to welcome our next guest.

Marcus Byram is a senior

reporter at Capitol in Maine. His work has been in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Village Voice,

New York Magazine, and the New York Daily News. His excellent new piece is called Trump's Budget

Director Pick on Path to Confirm Could hurt millions of working class Americans, including MAGA voters.

Marcus Barram, what a great pleasure. Welcome to Sirius XM.

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