Senator Whitehouse calls Vought, sidekick unfit to lead budget office after funding pause concerns local organizations

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says at a news conference with fellow Democrats after a pause in Federal grant funding was directed and then rescinded to register opposition to the nomination of Russell Vought to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the second Trump Administration that constituents across his state had questioned closure of the Medicaid portal, firefighters and police grants, Head Start funding, domestic violence shelter operations, community health centers' appointment scheduling, and addiction prevention services, creating widespread panic and scramble, and that Vought, his associate Mark Paoletta, and the Trump billionaire disruption connection will cause real harm to the American people.