President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate, despite attempts made by the Democratic Party to thwart that effort through a filibuster filled to the brim with speeches aimed at slamming the current administration for daring to hack and slash at the federal government.

On Thursday, the Senate held a vote on the confirmation of Vought, where he was confirmed and sworn in after a vote of 53-47. This will be Vought’s second term in the position. The GOP was all in on Vought, who will have a dramatic impact on how money is spent, which means, in a way, he gets to take away some of the “power of the purse” from Congress.

Unsurprisingly, Democrats voted in lockstep against Vought, but that wasn’t enough to overcome the Republican majority in the upper chamber. Even though it was clear from the beginning that Vought would be confirmed, Democratic elected officials were put under tremendous pressure from their base to oppose the Trump administration and its America First agenda.

Knowing they could not prevent the confirmation but could, at the minimum, delay it a bit, Democratic senators spent a total of 30 hours in procedural time delivering speeches condemning the Trump administration for cutting spending.

This effort marks the first major protest of the second Trump administration. The previous afternoon, Democrats began an all-nighter, providing programming from the Senate floor until the wee hours of Thursday morning and then throughout the day.

“Why doesn’t government run like a business?” asked Sen. Brian Schatz, a Hawaiian Democrat, in one of the floor speeches. “Let me tell you why: because if you ran government like a business, you would shut down every rural hospital.”

Schatz ended up taking multiple turns to deliver such talks throughout the filibuster, though he did pass the torch a few times to Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Another frequent presence for the party was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

Unlike most filibusters, where a single individual must hold the floor for hours without taking a break in order to make proceedings come to a complete stop, with no pre-set end time, the 30-hour time clock would have run out eventually whether or not anyone delivered a speech.

One of the big reasons Democrats are so dead set against Vought is because he is the author of the “Executive Office of the President” in the now infamous Project 2025 document.

Democrats made their stance on Vought clear well before the filibuster, holding multiple news conferences to highlight the stakes involved in his confirmation.

“I wish they had the strength, damn it, to vote him down. And I know the Senate was up all night,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, went on to say about Republicans during an interview on Thursday. “Russ Vought does not belong in public service. He really should be thrown out. He is a dangerous person to our government.”

Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee stated on Wednesday she would be “concerned if the Trump administration is clawing back money that has been specifically appropriated for a particular purpose.”

However, ultimately, she voted alongside every other Republican to confirm Vought.

Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, stated during an interview a week ago that, when it comes to Vought, “There’s no better mind for rooting out all of the nonsense. And he’ll be working side by side with the DOGE guys and figuring out what we need to do to actually deliver.”

During his confirmation hearing last month in front of the Budget Committee, Vought said, “The president ran on the notion that the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional. I agree with that.”