Date Posted: 2025-01-25 04:00:12 | Video Duration: 00:05:46
Video Summary
In a Senate hearing, concerns were raised about the nominee’s stance on withholding aid to Ukraine and potential noncompliance with the Impoundment Control Act. The nominee assured adherence to the law but shared differing views on its constitutionality. Additionally, his anti-abortion stance was questioned, highlighting his alignment with the president’s policies, emphasizing no exceptions for cases like rape or incest.
Murray Grills Vought On Following The Impoundment Control Act: Will You ‘Faithfully Follow The Law?’ Transcript
- 0:02 | thank you Mr chairman Mr vot I I
- 0:05 | appreciated the opportunity to meet with
- 0:07 | you last week but I do continue to have
- 0:10 | very serious concerns regarding your
- 0:12 | nomination starting with your position
- 0:15 | and record on empowerments I do not
- 0:18 | believe what happened in the case of
- 0:20 | withholding security assistance to
- 0:22 | Ukraine in 2019 while you were acting om
- 0:25 | director was an accident or a
- 0:28 | misunderstanding and and I fear it is
- 0:30 | actually a harbinger of what is to come
- 0:33 | these next four years in fact on his
- 0:35 | first day in office we saw the president
- 0:38 | order among other things what appears to
- 0:41 | be an illegal deferral of inflation
- 0:43 | reduction act bipartisan INF
- 0:46 | infrastructure law and foreign
- 0:48 | assistance funds as Senator Merkley
- 0:50 | referred to and Mr vote your written
- 0:53 | response when pressed on this that you
- 0:55 | will follow the advice of the incoming
- 0:57 | om General Council Mark pale ETA someone
- 1:01 | who has called the impowerment Control
- 1:03 | Act a stupid law and recently tweeted at
- 1:05 | you to impound baby impound is a bit
- 1:09 | Rich look as I said to you at our
- 1:11 | meeting members of Congress on both
- 1:14 | sides must know a deal is a deal a deal
- 1:17 | is a deal when we reach a bipartisan
- 1:20 | agreement on major legislation
- 1:22 | agreements cannot happen and Congress
- 1:25 | cannot function without that level of
- 1:28 | trust and impound baby impound is not
- 1:31 | the answer I am looking for so I want to
- 1:34 | ask you today will you if confirmed as
- 1:37 | director director Faithfully follow the
- 1:40 | law the empowerment Control Act yes or
- 1:43 | no Senator we will Faithfully uphold the
- 1:46 | law the president ran on the notion that
- 1:48 | the empowerment Control Act is
- 1:50 | unconstitutional I agree with that I
- 1:53 | would in response to the both questions
- 1:55 | say that what the president has unveiled
- 1:57 | already are not impoundments they are
- 2:00 | program lock ever been said to be
- 2:03 | unconstitutional by a court of law uh
- 2:06 | not to my knowledge it has not so it is
- 2:09 | the law of the land I don’t care what
- 2:10 | the president said when he was running
- 2:12 | it is the law of the land so will you
- 2:15 | follow that law if you are confirmed to
- 2:17 | this office Senator the president and
- 2:19 | his team is going to go through a review
- 2:22 | with our lawyers if confirmed uh
- 2:24 | including the Department of Justice to
- 2:26 | explore the parameters of the law with
- 2:29 | regard to the empowerment Control Act he
- 2:32 | hasn’t developed a strategy that he’s
- 2:34 | announced as as it pertains to how we
- 2:36 | would approach it there are pieces of
- 2:38 | legislation that have been proposed by
- 2:40 | members of this committee uh that we
- 2:43 | propose legislation all the time well if
- 2:46 | the rule of the law in a state is that
- 2:50 | it’s a 50 m
- 2:51 | hour uh speed limit you can’t just say
- 2:54 | well I think that’s irresponsible and
- 2:56 | I’m going to challenge it so therefore I
- 2:58 | don’t have to follow it the empowerment
- 3:00 | law is the law will you follow it or not
- 3:03 | you can say that we’re going to look at
- 3:05 | it and might challenge it in court but
- 3:07 | it is the law today will you follow that
- 3:10 | law as director Senator the reason why
- 3:12 | the president ran on this is that 200
- 3:14 | years of presidents had this telling me
- 3:16 | why you don’t agree with the law the law
- 3:18 | is the law will you follow the law and
- 3:20 | what he found in the first term was that
- 3:22 | we had agencies that would push out
- 3:24 | spending at the end of the fiscal year
- 3:26 | Mr chairman I’m gonna take my time back
- 3:27 | for a minute and just tell all of us we
- 3:30 | work all the time on Appropriations
- 3:32 | where I am ranking member to come to an
- 3:34 | agreement Senator Graham you and I work
- 3:36 | on agreements and we decide yeah okay
- 3:38 | we’ll both vote for this we have an
- 3:40 | agreement how can we ever have an
- 3:42 | agreement in the future if a president
- 3:45 | whoever he or her maybe in the future
- 3:47 | has say over that saying n never mind
- 3:50 | I’m not going to pay for this part of it
- 3:52 | we have to have agreements it is the law
- 3:54 | of the land uh and I have to say that
- 3:57 | your answer to this should be
- 3:58 | disconcerning to every single member on
- 4:00 | this committee um I have a minute left
- 4:03 | and I want to ask you another important
- 4:05 | question to me because as director of
- 4:07 | the powerful office of managing budg
- 4:09 | budget your job will not be merely to
- 4:12 | execute the president’s agenda it is
- 4:14 | also to advise the president on policy
- 4:16 | as you’ve made C clear so I want to ask
- 4:19 | about women’s health policy you were a
- 4:21 | lead author of the anti-abortion project
- 4:24 | 2025 you were also caught just a few
- 4:27 | months ago saying that when it comes to
- 4:29 | abortion you quote want to get to
- 4:31 | abolition now everyone should understand
- 4:34 | that abortion abolition means zero
- 4:38 | abortions under any circumstance
- 4:41 | whatsoever so Mr vote you have said that
- 4:43 | you don’t believe in exceptions for rape
- 4:46 | for incest or life of the me mother is
- 4:48 | that your position Senator My Views are
- 4:50 | not important I’m here on behalf of the
- 4:51 | president as his nominee to restore
- 4:54 | fiscal accountability I’m asking you a
- 4:55 | question under oath um sir because you
- 4:58 | want to be direct of an office that will
- 5:01 | advise the president and we have a right
- 5:03 | to know your views will you answer the
- 5:05 | question I I will Senator because it’s
- 5:07 | consistent with the pre the views that
- 5:08 | the president ran on repeatedly made his
- 5:11 | views very clear on abortion with regard
- 5:14 | in the last election in the case of rape
- 5:17 | incest life of the M that is his View
- 5:19 | and I will I will strictly abide by the
- 5:21 | president’s View and that that will be a
- 5:23 | general theme throughout this entire
- 5:24 | hearing my view of the of the position
- 5:27 | is that you come into an Administration
- 5:29 | and you do what the president ran on
- 5:31 | what the president’s viewpoints are and
- 5:33 | you do you take that Viewpoint and you
- 5:36 | it my time is up it’s very clear um what
- 5:39 | your stance is on this and people in in
- 5:41 | this country women and men alike should
- 5:42 | know
- 5:43 | that who
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