#russell vought

[saywhat-politics]

Multiple groups call on Senate to reject Vought nomination

Groups oppose Trump's nominee for OMB director

[thedialoguedilemma]

Just a theory that has been floating around:

JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Elon Musk, Kevin Roberts and Russell Vought alongside big tech are puppeteering Donald Trump to do the most insane forms of policy pushes as President in an effort to crash the United States into a national crisis and have Congress invoke the 25th Amendment. This is the plan, this was always the plan.

This is what President Biden was warning us against. It’s bigger than Trump. The thing that makes Trump so dangerous is the fact that’s he’s a moron and he’s easily manipulated. The names I listed above ARE THE OLIGARCHY.

[yetisidelblog]

Donald Trump’s post-election actions prove what we’ve warned all along: Project 2025 is the top priority of his administration. This dangerous plan aims to dismantle our democracy while slashing funding for infrastructure, climate action, and programs designed to help working families thrive. With Russell Vought as its architect, this blueprint for authoritarianism is taking shape.

Vought’s nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget is about more than policy. It’s about whether we let a man who flagrantly ignored Congress during his last tenure take control again. In his confirmation hearing last week, Vought refused to say he would not illegally withhold funds authorized by Congress, including critical dollars allocated for infrastructure under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

These investments represent lifelines for millions of Americans. They fund bridges and roads in desperate need of repair, expand climate initiatives to reduce emissions, and lower housing and transportation costs — two of the biggest expenses for working families. Vought’s nomination threatens every single one of these priorities.

We’ve fought and won against dangerous nominees before, but this fight is urgent. Letting Vought oversee OMB would hand Trump and his Project 2025 cronies the tools to dismantle essential programs and devastate communities nationwide.

We cannot let this dangerous agenda take root without a fight. Tell your senators to reject Russell Vought’s nomination now.

Rejecting Russell Vought isn’t just about one nomination it’s about stopping a cascade of harmful policies. If confirmed, Vought will push to strip billions from climate action, block infrastructure improvements, and undermine affordable housing initiatives all while serving Trump’s authoritarian agenda.The Senate has a responsibility to stand up for working families. We may not be able to stop all of Project 2025. After all, we won’t win every battle with Republicans in full control of Congress -- but we will definitely lose every battle we don’t fight. Working together, we can reject the extremists pushing a dangerous agenda and do everything we can to ensure that our government works for the everyone, not just billionaires and corporations.

Sign and send your message demanding your senators reject Russell Vought’s nomination now.

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[tomorrowusa]

« It will never make sense, but people believed Donald Trump when he lied—about Vice President Kamala Harris, about President Joe Biden, about the economy, about immigrants, about trans people, about his accomplishments. 

Yet, when he told the truth about what he would do if elected, people didn’t believe him. »

— Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, AKA: "Kos", at his blog Daily Kos.

Remember when Trump denied any knowledge of Project 2025?

So Trump made one of the chief architects of Project 2025 a senior member of his administration.

Trump picks Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought to lead budget office

When it comes to Trump's credibility, always remember the number 30,573.

Washington Post counts 30,573 false or misleading claims in four years by Trump

[foolishmortal]

THIS IS THE WEEK

NO on Vought

NO on Musk

we are ORGANIZED and we are showing UP

use this tool kit to find or create your local action

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These images are for you to share as you like. My purpose is make ideas extra clear and memorable. This is the time for being loud and brave.

Below are many places to put your good energies. For the children who now will die because of Trump. For the ideals and values he could never understand but will trample in the name of insatiable greed.

Robert Hubble:

We must keep hammering our representatives in Congress to rise to the moment. Their muted, business-as-usual approach to date is unacceptable. If you are looking for immediate steps to take, follow Jessica Craven on Chop Wood Carry Water, and become involved in Indivisible, Swing Left, and other grassroots movements. Or support Democracy Forward, Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Brennan Center for Justice, Lawyers Defending American Democracy, Common Cause, the ACLU, and other justice organizations.

Laura Conwesser:

These are very difficult times. Although there are no quick fixes, there are some things we can do to make our voices heard. According to people who know a lot more than I do, the number one issue is preventing Russell Vought from getting Senate approval to run the OMB (Office of Management and Budget). Vought is the architect of Project 2025 and the evil mastermind behind all the moves Trump has been making to fire career government employees and replace them with MAGA flunkies. He will withhold constitutionally mandated funding from organizations and programs that he doesn't like. He must be stopped. So item #1 on your to-do list is to call your Senators and voice your opposition to Vought and the funding freeze that was implemented last week. You can use Indivisible's tool here.

There is another tool for calling your representatives that many people prefer to Indivisible's tool. 5 Calls. They have a long list of issues to address in your calls, in addition to Vought. And there is one more dialing tool for calling your Senators about Vought, Patel, Gabbard and RFK, Jr. Nix the Noms

Indivisible is suggesting that it could be more effective to actually go to your Senator's office. Clearly, we aren't all going to DC to do that, but Senator's have local offices, too. If you live in NYC and are interested in doing this, please let me know. We can go to Schumer's and Gillibrand's offices this Wednesday or Thursday. If you are not in NYC or want to organize something on your own, you will find these tools helpful. here and here. If you are in the DC area, there is going to be an in-person action there this Tuesday. Let me know if you are interested and I will get you more information.

For those of you who live in swing districts, you can sign up here for more information.

There is going to be a phone bank Monday 2/3, to tell Congress to stop the budget cuts that are hurting working families. You can sign up for that here.

And last, but not least, please sign this petition urging Republicans not to cut federal aid. It's quick and easy. petition

There are rumors of demonstrations this Wednesday, 2/5, and on Presidents Day, 2/17. More soon.

[Steve Brodner]

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In times past, Vought — who famously asked “Is There Anything Actually Wrong With ‘Christian Nationalism?’ ” in Newsweek in 2021 — would have been seen, and dismissed, as an over-the-top extremist well outside the boundaries of mainstream politics. Today, he is a lauded Trump loyalist on the verge of his second tour of duty with the president, in one of the most powerful posts in the federal government.

...Vought, if all goes according to plan, will be confirmed as O.M.B. director by the Senate later this week.

...“The apocalyptic tone adopted by the MAGA minions,” [Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard] wrote by email,

reflects a rhetorically effective if not especially original plan to confuse and thereby disarm the resistance, such as it is, by disabling the sadly limited critical faculties of those whose political paralysis enables the ascendant to rule largely unchallenged while the policies they push injure the very voters whose ballots cloak them with a patina of popular legitimacy. Transparently normalizing the aberrant and extreme, they clear the path toward infiltrating, inhabiting and thereby co-opting the political and legal institutions they aim to make their own, in all three branches of government and throughout the federal system. The results they seek conform to no systematic ideology but reflect the age-old pathology of self-aggrandizing power and wealth, spiked with an added dose of cruelty and retribution for imagined slights, and heavily tinged with scapegoating racism and misogyny, magnified by xenophobia and classic antisemitism.

For Vought, whose job at O.M.B. is to oversee spending, the demonization of Democrats provides a rationale for cutting programs for the poor supported by liberals and Democrats.

How would Vought cut federal spending?

In December 2022, under Vought’s direction, the Center for Renewing America produced a comprehensive budget proposal, “A Commitment to End Woke and Weaponized Government.” The proposal called for enormous cuts in domestic spending, particularly in programs for the poor.

A sampling of the size of Vought’s spending cuts in the first year of implementation: Head Start, $5.4 billion; Low Income Energy Assistance, $3.7 billion; the Department of Housing and Urban Development, $25.8 billion, including $12.8 billion for Tenant-Based Rental Assistance vouchers better known as Section 8.

Long-term reforms in the center’s budget proposal would cut Medicaid by $1.1 trillion and Medicare by $766 billion over 10 years.

Vought’s cuts are rationalized without legitimate justification. In the case of the Justice Department, for example, the center calls for spending reductions based on ideology:

The highly politicized Civil Rights Division and Environment and Natural Resources Division, full elimination of the “equity” obsessed Community Relations Service, an immediate zeroing out of the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program and a down payment on a transformative restructuring of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to disarm and defang its weaponized posture toward Americans who do not share the political bent of the bureaucratic elite.

While Vought and the center called for the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget to be cut from $9.2 billion to $6.5 billion and the National Science Foundation budget to be cut from $8.5 billion to $3.9 billion, they not only left the Defense Department intact, but gave it another $83.4 billion.

...Vought served as a key adviser to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, writing a crucial chapter in the project’s proposed agenda for the Trump administration, “Executive Office of the President of the United States.”

In that chapter, Vought describes how he sees his role of director of O.M.B. and as the key executor of Trump’s agenda:

The director must view his job as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the president’s mind as it pertains to the policy agenda while always being ready with actual options to effect that agenda within existing legal authorities and resources.

What is at the top of the president’s agenda?

The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power — including power currently held by the executive branch — to the American people. Success in meeting that challenge will require a rare combination of boldness and self-denial: boldness to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will and self-denial to use the bureaucratic machine to send power away from Washington.

Vought’s Project 2025 chapter anticipated much of what Trump has done since Jan. 20:

The next Administration will face a significant challenge in unwinding policies and procedures that are used to advance radical gender, racial and equity initiatives under the banner of science. Similarly, the Biden Administration’s climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding.

[alyfoxxxen]

U.S. Senate confirms Russ Vought, a Project 2025 author, to manage the nation’s budget • Idaho Capital Sun

[saywhat-politics]

The Project 2025 architect has long argued in support of the president’s power to impound — that is, refuse to spend — funds allocated by Congress

Written by John Knefel

Published 01/28/25 1:33 PM EST

A new memo issued by the Trump administration directing the federal government to temporarily cease disbursing billions of dollars in funds appears to draw on arguments made by Russ Vought, the president’s selectee to run the Office of Management and Budget.

Vought was a primary architect of Project 2025, a sprawling effort organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and staffing recommendations for President Donald Trump’s second term. In addition to that role, Vought is also the founder of the Center for Renewing America, a MAGA-aligned think tank that has spent over a year arguing that the president can unilaterally refuse to spend funds allocated by Congress, an authority known as the impoundment power that was severely curtailed by Congress in 1974.

The new Trump administration memo was issued by Matthew Vaeth, acting director of OMB pending Vought’s confirmation vote. The document calls for federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” 

“The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” the memo states.

[medinerd]

5 Calls - Oppose Project 2025 Author Russell Vought for OMB Director

Trump has nominated Project 2025 author Russell Vought to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB is the federal agency tasked with oversight and administration of the federal budget as approved by Congress; it came into the spotlight on January 28th when acting OMB Director Matthew Veath unlawfully froze all federal funding, creating confusion and chaos across the…

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Senate

Vote NO on Project 2025 author Russell Vought for OMB!

9,081 so far! Help us get to 10,000 signers!

I’m a constituent writing to say that I’m outraged that Trump is working with Elon Musk to shut down the functions of our federal government. I’m also furious about the attempts to “freeze” federal spending. And I know that all of this goes straight back to Trump’s nominee for OMB Director, Russell Vought. If confirmed, moreover, I know that Vought will further enable Trump’s and Musk’s unconstitutional power grab.

Vought has made it clear in his confirmation hearings that his allegiance is to Trump and not to our Constitution. If he is put in charge of OMB, he will greenlight Trump and Musk’s coup which would cause devastating harm to millions of people in our communities.

Please stand up against Trump’s assault on our democracy. I expect the Senator to call for Vought’s nomination to be withdrawn and to vote NO if his confirmation moves forward. Remember that you work for us. Thanks.

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[yetisidelblog]

there's still time to stop Russell Vought’s confirmation as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Take action now to tell your Senator to vote no on Vought. 

Vought plans to force forward the Project 2025 agenda by replacing scientists and experts, slashing funding for critical programs and dismantling government agencies, especially the EPA. 

In short, Vought wants to make our air more polluted, our water less safe to drink and increase our electricity bills by moving the U.S. away from cheaper clean energy. 

Will you urge your Senator to vote AGAINST Vought? Take action now! 

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[alyfoxxxen]

Trump’s pick for OMB chief defends removing civil service protections, withholding appropriated funds - Government Executive