The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday approved President Donald Trump’s pick for a top White House budget spot with nearly unanimous support.
Dan Bishop, nominee for deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, advanced along party lines.
Trump nominated Bishop, a former Republican congressman from North Carolina, after an unsuccessful bid for North Carolina’s attorney general. In Congress, he was a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus.
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Bishop, who still has to go through the Budget Committee, spoke at his confirmation hearing in support of Trump’s spending freezes and mass government layoffs
