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#Project2025 #coup success

#Senate confirms #RussellVought to lead #OMB

The Senate on Thurs confirmed #RussVought as the next director of the powerful WH budget office, installing a *#conservative* *fiscal* hawk [really just a #white #cis #hetero #Christian #nationalist] has promised to pursue sweeping spending cuts & empower #Trump to conform the budget to his political views.

#Republicans marshaled a 53-47 [ummm] vote in support of #Vought….

#law #TrumpCoup
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/06/russell-vought-confirmed-omb-director/

#Democratic #Senators Will Hold the #SenateFloor All Night Long in #Opposition to the #Nomination of #Project2025 Organizer #RussVought to Head the #OMB

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In a flurry of late-Friday announcements, #Trump made a slew of picks, including: #RussVought, a key figure in the *#conservative* governing blueprint known as #Project2025, to lead the #OMB; Rep Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon for #labor secretary; Dr. Martin A. Makary to lead the #FDA; & Dr. #DaveWeldon, a fmr congressman from Florida, to be director of the #CDC.

#law #USpol #health #ReproductiveRights
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/22/us/trump-cabinet-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#RussVought, a #Project2025 architect, is reportedly set to repeat as head of Office of Management and Budget after serving in the position for Trump's first term.

We recently unearthed private videos of Vought's plans for "traumatically" razing the civil service, siccing military on protestors, defunding environmental protections, and generally helping #Trump accumulate more executive power than any president before him.

#News #USPolitics #Politics #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

“Put Them in #Trauma”: Inside a Key #MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New #Trump Agenda

Private videos reveal Trump adviser #RussVought’s “shadow” plans for using the #military on #protesters, defunding the #EPA & villainizing #CivilServants.

#Project2025 #HeritageFoundation

#law #democracy #Election2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

#RussVought #NaziTrump #GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol

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#Trump loyalist pushes ‘#postConstitutional’ vision for 2nd term

#RussVought is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of #PresidentialPowers.

A DC bureaucrat & self-described #ChristianNationalist is drawing up detailed plans for a sweeping expansion of presidential #power in a 2nd Trump admin. Vought who served as Trump’s budget chief calls his #political strategy for razing long-standing #guardrails “#radical constitutionalism.”

#law #constitution
https://wapo.st/3yXcDpW