MURRAY GRILLS DEPUTY OMB DIRECTOR NOMINEE HAL DUNCAN, SOUNDS ALARM ON PROPOSED OMB RULE TO POLITICIZE ALL FEDERAL GRANTS AND ON REPUBLICAN ATTACKS ON SOCIAL SECURITY

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:

Today-at a Senate Budget Committee hearing (https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/the-nomination-of-mr-hal-duncan-of-texas-to-be-deputy-director-of-the-office-of-management-and-budget) to consider Hal Duncan's nomination to serve as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)-U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a senior member and former chair of the Budget Committee, expressed her doubt that Duncan would serve as anything other than a rubberstamp for Russ Vought's extremist agenda.

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MURRAY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Duncan, you're up for a very important job running the ...