The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday approved President Donald Trump’s pick for a top White House budget spot.
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