#russvought — Public Fediverse posts

#RussVought had carefully analyzed mistakes from the first term. And he had laid out steps to achieve the long-sought conservative goal of a president with dramatically expanded #authority over the #ExecutiveBranch, including the #power to cut off #spending, #fire employees, control #independent #FederalAgencies & #deregulate the #economy.

#Musk, who spent >$250M to help elect #Trump, had celebrity, access to the president & political capital that the budget director could never hope for.

The #RussVought #Project2025 #OMB told #FederalAgencies late Wednesday to use the opportunity of a potential shutdown “to consider Reduction in Force” [#RIF] notices to lay off federal employees. The #WhiteHouse also told agency leaders to focus on eliminating positions where #funding had expired, or could not be sourced under other laws, & had been deemed to be “not consistent” with #Trump’s political agenda.

#law #Congress #MafiaState #extortion #coercion

#RussVought does not hide his agenda or shy away from using #extreme rhetoric in public. But the apocalyptic tone & hard-line #policy prescriptions in the two private speeches go further than his earlier pronouncements. As #OMB dir, Vought sought to use #Trump’s 2020 “#ScheduleF” executive order to strip away job protections for nonpartisan #government workers. But he has never spoken in such pointed terms about #demoralizing federal #workers to the point that they don’t want to do their jobs.