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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Trump ushers in a Christian "deep state": MAGA moves to gut the Constitution

Salon

Far-right pastor Lance Wallnau is incredibly upset over the burgeoning controversies regarding Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth. On Thursday, Marianna Sotomayor wrote in the Washington Post that Trump's policy agenda will face the obstacle of "narrow and ideologically fractured majority" Republicans have in the House. Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, is a Christian nationalist who …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Trump looks 'ready to touch the third rail' with politically toxic ideas: analysis

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump for years has differentiated himself from Republicans by ruling out cutting or privatizing popular programs such as Social Security and Medicare. But as Salon's Heather Parton writes, Trump's decision to empower X CEO Elon Musk to lead a "Department of Government Efficiency" leads her to believe that major cuts to these programs are firmly on the table …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Donald Trump is ready to make Republicans touch the third rail

Salon

There are a thousand election hot takes and post-mortems floating around these days and I'm sure we'll soon come to some consensus about what drove the Trump victory But if there's one thing we do know it's that he won both of his elections at least in part by shedding some Republican Party orthodoxy that had been bringing the GOP …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

"Outrageously powerful and incredibly secret": Yes, Trump can wield CIA, FBI for his own ends

Salon

Donald Trump's war against the "deep state" and his political opponents appears to be on a collision course with U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. According to Larry Pfeiffer, who was chief of staff to former CIA director Michael Hayden and now directs the Hayden Center at George Mason University, Ratcliffe was confirmed by Congress because “it meant getting Grenell …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Trump disavowed Project 2025. Now he’s hiring its contributors for his administration

LA Times

President-elect Trump has nominated Russell Vought to head the Office of Management and Budget. He believes “woke” civil servants and “so-called expert authorities” wield illegitimate power to block conservative White House directives from deep within federal agencies, and wants Trump to “bend or break” that bureaucracy to his will, he wrote in the second chapter of the Project 2025 playbook. …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

'Taking off the mask': Trump said to be 'charging ahead' with 'dangerous' agenda

Raw Story

Despite distancing himself for months from the highly controversial Project 2025, President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet selections show his stance on the ‘right-wing manifesto’ giving Democrats worries is shifting. And that means Trump’s vision for America when he returns to the White House could soon include many of the plans spelled out in the 900-page policy blueprint known as Project 2025, …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

How Trump plans to seize the power of the purse from Congress

Raw Story

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. “The president doesn’t have the authority to go into the budget bit by bit and pull out the stuff he doesn’t like.” Trump’s claim to have impoundment power contravenes a Nixon-era law that forbids presidents from blocking spending over policy disagreements as well as a string of federal court rulings that prevent presidents …

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4 weeks ago

Trump is promising big cuts. Impoundment is one axe he wants to wield

NPR

Trump is promising big cuts. Impoundment is one axe he wants to wield toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump is promising to slash through what he says is significant waste in the American government. "We're going to bring back presidential impoundment authority, which nobody knows what it is," Trump said at a rally this spring. toggle caption Brendan …

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4 weeks ago

Trump's nomination of Project 2025 architect means Social Security, Medicare 'are at risk'

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect, to lead the White House budget office was seen as further evidence of the threat the incoming administration poses to Social Security, Medicare, and other critical government programs. "Vought oversaw every budget in the first Trump administration that cut Social Security and Medicare," said Tony Carrk, executive director of …

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4 weeks ago

Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet and executive branch of different ideas and eclectic personalities

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore. AP AUDIO: Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet and executive branch of different positions and eclectic personalities In an …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Tras negar el Proyecto 2025, Trump apunta a sus autores e influencers para puestos clave

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Como expresidente y potencialmente futuro presidente, Donald Trump elogió lo que se convertiría en el Proyecto 2025 como un mapa de ruta para “exactamente lo que nuestro movimiento hará” con otra oportunidad en la Casa Blanca. “El presidente Trump nunca tuvo nada que ver con el Proyecto 2025″, dijo la portavoz de Trump, Karoline Leavitt, en un comunicado. …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Who are Trump’s cabinet and staff picks? Everything we know about the White House nominations so far

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Trump’s first failed nominee: Matt Gaetz, Attorney General open image in gallery Former congressman …

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1 month ago

After Trump’s Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — As a former and potentially future president, Donald Trump hailed what would become Project 2025 as a road map for “exactly what our movement will do” with another crack at the White House. Vought, the president-elect said, “knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State” — Trump’s catch-all for federal bureaucracy — and would help “restore fiscal sanity.” …

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1 month ago

Trump names Labour Secretary, FDA, CDC chiefs & more in the latest flurry of appointments

Firstpost

President-elect Donald Trump released a list of people who will be filling up the top brass of his government in a ‘Friday night flurry’. This included the appointments of Treasury and Labour Secretaries In a late “Friday flurry,” President-elect Donald Trump has announced his latest picks to take over key positions in his upcoming administration. Trump fills top brass in …

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1 month ago

Here are the 5 Project 2025 authors Trump has already nominated for his Cabinet

Raw Story

As a candidate, Donald Trump insisted he knew nothing about the far-right Heritage Foundation's authoritarian Project 2025 playbook. Other Project 2025 contributors taking key roles in the Trump administration include Michigan Republican Party chair Pete Hoekstra — who was tapped to be the next U.S. Notably, Trump transition co-chairman Howard Lutnick — who Trump selected to head the U.S. Department …

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1 month ago

Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

Hindustan Times

* Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office Vought to help set budget priorities, roll back regulations * Vought was OMB chief during Trump's 2017-2021 term * Vought has played a major role in Project 2025 By Gram Slattery and Tim Reid Nov 22 - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key …

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1 month ago

'Aggressive cost cutter': Trump taps key Project 2025 figure for major government agency

Raw Story

Russell Vought, a co-author of the highly controversial “Project 2025” initiative, has been nominated to be the country’s next director of the Office of Management and Budget – a position he’s held before. “I am very pleased to nominate Russell Thurlow Vought, from the Great State of Virginia, as the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget,” …

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1 month ago

Trump elige a Scott Bessent para secretario del Tesoro y a Russel Vought para jefe de presupuesto

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — El presidente electo estadounidense Donald Trump anunció el viernes que nominará a Scott Bessent, gestor de fondos de cobertura y defensor de reducir el déficit, para que sea su próximo secretario del Tesoro. Trump dijo también que nominaría a Russel Vought para dirigir la Oficina de Administración y Presupuesto de la Casa Blanca, cargo que Vought ostentó en …

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1 month ago

Trump Chooses Bessent To Be Treasury Secretary, Vought As Budget Chief, Chavez-DeRemer For Labor

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he’ll nominate billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next treasury secretary, one of several personnel decisions that he unveiled as he closed out the workweek. Trump also said he would nominate Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and …

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1 month ago

President-elect Trump announces a number of cabinet appointees

NPR

President-elect Trump announces a number of cabinet appointees SCOTT DETROW, HOST: The Trump administration is fast taking shape - a quick update on the latest round of picks. Rollins was a policy adviser in the first Trump administration and, in recent years, has headed a think tank closely aligned with Trump's agenda. Vought was a leading architect behind Project 2025, …

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1 month ago

Trump names hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary, announces other picks

LA Times

Hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, 62, served for years as a top money manager for George Soros, a billionaire donor to Democrats. President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he’ll nominate billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next Treasury secretary. Trump said Bessent would “help me usher in a new Golden Age …

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'Showing his hand': Trump reportedly caught 'lying to voters' about 'Project 2025 lackeys'

Raw Story

Donald Trump sought to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for remaking government during his re-election campaign, but he has already named at least four individuals associated with the plan to serve in his administration. “Donald Trump spent months on the campaign trail lying to voters about the clear ties between his campaign and the wildly unpopular Project …

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1 month ago

Trump expected to name Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head White House budget office

Salon

After a year of claiming he had nothing to do with Project 2025, President-elect Donald Trump is appointing one of its chief architects to lead the Office of Management and Budget, multiple outlets reported. Russ Vought, who previously occupied the role for two years in Trump's first term, will return with wide-ranging powers to shape Trump's budget and examine the …

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1 month ago

'Huge mistake': GOP senator trashes Trump’s proposal to turn Army into deportation force

Raw Story

A cornerstone of President-elect Donald Trump's second-term agenda is the mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants. Earlier this week, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that he would make a national emergency declaration that would allow for the military to be called up to assist his administration with mass deportations. And his nominations of immigration hard-liners like South …

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Trump ushers in a Christian "deep state": MAGA moves to gut the Constitution

Trump looks 'ready to touch the third rail' with politically toxic ideas: analysis

Donald Trump is ready to make Republicans touch the third rail

"Outrageously powerful and incredibly secret": Yes, Trump can wield CIA, FBI for his own ends

Trump disavowed Project 2025. Now he’s hiring its contributors for his administration

'Taking off the mask': Trump said to be 'charging ahead' with 'dangerous' agenda

How Trump plans to seize the power of the purse from Congress

Trump is promising big cuts. Impoundment is one axe he wants to wield

Trump's nomination of Project 2025 architect means Social Security, Medicare 'are at risk'

Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet and executive branch of different ideas and eclectic personalities

Tras negar el Proyecto 2025, Trump apunta a sus autores e influencers para puestos clave

Who are Trump’s cabinet and staff picks? Everything we know about the White House nominations so far

After Trump’s Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles

Trump names Labour Secretary, FDA, CDC chiefs & more in the latest flurry of appointments

Here are the 5 Project 2025 authors Trump has already nominated for his Cabinet

Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

'Aggressive cost cutter': Trump taps key Project 2025 figure for major government agency

Trump elige a Scott Bessent para secretario del Tesoro y a Russel Vought para jefe de presupuesto

Trump Chooses Bessent To Be Treasury Secretary, Vought As Budget Chief, Chavez-DeRemer For Labor

President-elect Trump announces a number of cabinet appointees

Trump names hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary, announces other picks

'Showing his hand': Trump reportedly caught 'lying to voters' about 'Project 2025 lackeys'

Trump expected to name Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head White House budget office

'Huge mistake': GOP senator trashes Trump’s proposal to turn Army into deportation force