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Trump looks 'ready to touch the third rail' with politically toxic ideas: analysis
2 weeks, 6 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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Trump disavowed Project 2025. Now he’s hiring its contributors for his administration
3 weeks, 4 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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'Taking off the mask': Trump said to be 'charging ahead' with 'dangerous' agenda
3 weeks, 4 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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How Trump plans to seize the power of the purse from Congress
4 weeks 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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Who are Trump’s cabinet and staff picks? Everything we know about the White House nominations so far
1 month 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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Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office
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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'Aggressive cost cutter': Trump taps key Project 2025 figure for major government agency
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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President-elect Trump announces a number of cabinet appointees
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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Trump names hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary, announces other picks
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'
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1 month ago

'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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Trump team vetting more Project 2025 authors for top administration jobs: report
1 month ago

Trump team vetting more Project 2025 authors for top administration jobs: report

Raw Story  

Donald Trump and his advisers tried to distance themselves during the campaign from the controversial Project 2024 blueprint, but several individuals who worked on the plan for overhauling the federal government have already found jobs in his incoming administration. Russ Vought, one of the plan's chief architects and the author of its "comprehensive policy guide for the next conservative U.S. …

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“Put Them In Trauma”: Inside A Key MAGA Leader’s Plans For A New Trump Agenda
1 month, 3 weeks ago

“Put Them In Trauma”: Inside A Key MAGA Leader’s Plans For A New Trump Agenda

Huff Post  

President Donald Trump listens as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought speaks during an event on "transparency in Federal guidance and enforcement" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, in Washington. He said the plans are a response to a “Marxist takeover” of the country; likened the moment to 1776 …

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Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought talks Trump in secret video
4 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought talks Trump in secret video

CNN  

CNN — Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.” Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, …

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'Straight out of the Handmaid's Tale': Biden camp whacks Trump over report of extreme plan
10 months ago

'Straight out of the Handmaid's Tale': Biden camp whacks Trump over report of extreme plan

Raw Story  

The Biden campaign responded to a report from Politico detailing how Christian nationalism is intentionally being injected into the plans being drafted for a potential second Trump presidential term. “Vought has a close affiliation with Christian nationalist William Wolfe, a former Trump administration official who has advocated for overturning same-sex marriage, ending abortion and reducing access to contraceptives.” “Vought,” Politico …

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