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Trump is promising big cuts. Impoundment is one axe he wants to wield
4 weeks, 1 day 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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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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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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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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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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Donald Trump's Christian-nationalist radical has big plans for America
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Donald Trump's Christian-nationalist radical has big plans for America

Salon  

Over the weekend, the Washington Post's Beth Reinhard published an excellent article about one of Donald Trump's most visionary advisers, an obscure figure named Russ Vought. Vought is a self-described Christian nationalist who is spearheading plans for a rapid expansion of executive power under a theory he calls “radical constitutionalism" He has been working for a right-wing network called the …

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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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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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Trump budget director bans key staffers from meeting with Biden transition team: report
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump budget director bans key staffers from meeting with Biden transition team: report

Raw Story  

On Thursday, Bloomberg News reported that Russ Vought, the Office of Management and Budget director under outgoing President Donald Trump, has blocked key officials at the agency from meeting with members of President-elect Joe Biden's transition team — possibly delaying the new administration's fiscal policy by months. 'The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, has argued …

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