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Russ Vought Seeks To Cut Deeper Than Musk

The staunch fiscal conservative is slated to slash federal spending and bureaucratic bloat from his perch in the Trump White House.

Feb 16, 2025

Russ Vought Seeks To Cut Deeper Than Musk

Russ Vought is back within Donald Trump’s inner circle after some time away, picking up where he left off.

Resuming his role as Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from the previous Trump Administration after being confirmed on a party-line 53-47 vote, as well as taking on a new role as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Vought is once again in a critical position within the Trump White House.

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Kate Devaney1 year ago

President Trump's picking Vought for OBM and CFPB demonstrates how much he learned over the past eight years and how ready he is to lead the country back to its founding principals.

sharon smith1 year ago

We're going in the 'right' direction, no pun intended, but the fact that his thoughts appear in the Project 2025 handbook is troubling. If he intends to deal with just the technical aspects of fiscal control, we should be OK, but not if he reaches into the murky bag of tricks he co-authored in P'25. Hoping he distances himself from that file, with further hope that it is tossed on a bonfire!

Scott Connell1 year ago

Project 2025 is 922 page paper made up of multiple conservative authors, with varying opinions, on how to get this country back on track with what our founders had originally intended. Some of the ideas expressed are just common sense, and others not so, but they're all pretty much focused at getting back to following the constitution as written. The Democrats lied about P2025 and used it to "scare" Americans that this was created by the "far right nut cases" that want to take over the world! That lie stuck because no one in the conservative news media would push back with the truth, and Trump was forced to distance himself from it.

So, Democrats live on the premise that if you tell a lie enough times, people will believe it - and it works.

Jim Dee1 year ago

OMB needs to prioritize the audit and administrative closure of physically complete cost-type contracts.

Paul Bohac1 year ago

Having been a part of the "unelected" government via the bureaucracy at the state level for 10 years, serving in various lesser or greater roles depending on how the winds blew, I finally fled back to the field where I believed my efforts would make a difference. Restricting the number of terms an elected person can serve has unintended consequences. One of the greatest is the dependency on career staffers. Governing is not simple. It takes time to learn the processes, procedures and language. Many a bill written for consideration never make to the floor while many that make it to the floor should not have. The difference lies not in the "author" but in the skill of the staffers involved who knew how to massage the language, the process and the procedure on behalf of the author. Elected representatives serve the people. Bureaucrats serve the bureaucracy. Multi-term elected officials direct their staffers, limited term elected officials are directed by their staffers.

Stephen Winsor1 year ago

Vought appears to be the "right man for the right job". I don't buy into all the scare tactics about "Project 2025". We have but one chance to make the hard changes needed to bury the Marxist left and keep this great country.

Bill Roberts1 year ago

It’s past time to eliminate these money pits. CFPB, USAID, & The DoE need to disappear into a dark hole of American history. Also while Trump and DOGE are at it pull all funding from PBS, BBC, and NPR, etc. These left wing media’s need to get back to what they were designed to be and not espousing left wing ideology. That goes for radical universities that allow WOKE professors to poison the minds of our youth.