President Donald Trump will be sending Congress a package of funding to nix and expects enough Republicans to vote for it, according to the acting chief of staff for the White House budget office.
During his first of two confirmation hearings Thursday to serve as deputy director for management at the White House Office of Management and Budget, Eric Ueland told senators that President Donald Trump and White House budget director Russ Vought have been “very clear to us at OMB” that the Trump administration “will be sending a rescission package — at least one — to Congress.”
That assurance comes a week after Senate Republicans met with White House officials and said they are increasingly confident about Trump’s intent to send a so-called rescission package of spending cuts.
“We do expect success,” Ueland, who is currently serving as acting chief of staff while he awaits confirmation, told lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
