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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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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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Here are the 5 Project 2025 authors Trump has already nominated for his Cabinet
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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Trump expected to name Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head White House budget office
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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Project 2025 leader says Trump ‘very supportive’ of their work and lays out plans if he returns to White House
4 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025 leader says Trump ‘very supportive’ of their work and lays out plans if he returns to White House

The Independent  

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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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A chief architect of Project 2025 is ready to shock Washington if Donald Trump wins a second term
4 months, 2 weeks ago

A chief architect of Project 2025 is ready to shock Washington if Donald Trump wins a second term

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Russell Vought sounds like a general marshaling troops for combat when he talks about taming a “woke and weaponized” federal government. He recently described political opposition as “enemy fire that’s coming over the target,” while urging allies to be “fearless at the point of attack” and calling his policy proposals “battle plans.” If former President Donald Trump wins …

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Right-wing host wants overthrow of democracy: ‘We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6’
10 months ago

Right-wing host wants overthrow of democracy: ‘We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6’

Raw Story  

Jack Posobiec, a right-wing host and activist, told a group of conservatives that their goal should be overthrowing democracy because they didn't get the job done on Jan. 6, 2021. At a Wednesday Conservative Political Action Conference event, Posobiec welcomed the audience as a panel session began with former White House strategist Steve Bannon. A Southern Poverty Law Center investigation …

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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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Trump allies craft plans to give him unprecedented power if he wins the White House
1 year ago

Trump allies craft plans to give him unprecedented power if he wins the White House

NPR  

Trump allies craft plans to give him unprecedented power if he wins the White House Enlarge this image toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Scott Olson/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump and his allies are preparing for an aggressive expansion of his powers should he take back the White House. Breaking through bureaucracy During their last go in the White House, …

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Opinion: Trump’s Plan To Go Full Fascist If He Wins In 2024
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: Trump’s Plan To Go Full Fascist If He Wins In 2024

Huff Post  

There are several compelling reasons to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House. Put simply, every part of the federal government, every agency, every department that has always operated independently from political interference by the White House — that will end, according to a detailed New York Times review of Trump’s campaign policy proposals and interviews with people …

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Meet Russ Vought: Mild-mannered mastermind of the GOP's debt-ceiling power play
1 year, 6 months ago

Meet Russ Vought: Mild-mannered mastermind of the GOP's debt-ceiling power play

Salon  

Russ Vought, former head of the Office of Management and Budget under Donald Trump, appeared on Steve Bannon's far-right "War Room" show on April 19. Vought was Trump's attack dog in fighting the power of the "deep state," and fully shared his antipathy to the civil service professionals, who repeatedly thwarted the president's will to seize total power. "To the …

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GOP taking budget advice from Trump official who wants to cut $2 trillion from Medicaid
1 year, 10 months ago

GOP taking budget advice from Trump official who wants to cut $2 trillion from Medicaid

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. The right-wing official who served as budget director for the Trump administration is reportedly playing a significant advisory role for House Republicans as they seek to leverage a fast-approaching debt ceiling crisis to enact spending cuts that would disproportionately impact low-income households. According toThe Washington Post, former Office of Management and Budget chief …

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Former Trump official complains that feds put Jeffrey Clark 'in the streets in his pajamas' during raid
2 years, 6 months ago

Former Trump official complains that feds put Jeffrey Clark 'in the streets in his pajamas' during raid

Raw Story  

A former Trump administration official complained about the FBI raid of a former Justice Department official who is implicated in Donald Trump's plot to overturn his election loss. Russ Vought, the president of the Center for Renewing America and former director of the Office of Management and Budget, called the raid a civil rights violation against Jeffrey Clark, who had …

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Justice Dept. raids home of Jeffrey Clark, former agency official scrutinized in Jan. 6 inquiry
2 years, 6 months ago

Justice Dept. raids home of Jeffrey Clark, former agency official scrutinized in Jan. 6 inquiry

LA Times  

Federal investigators on Wednesday searched the Virginia home of Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department official who pushed the department, at then-President Trump’s request, to get involved in efforts to challenge the 2020 election results. Russ Vought, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, decried Wednesday’s search on Twitter, saying agents searched Clark’s house “in a …

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