Behind Trump's imperial presidency (and Elon), there's Russell Vought. [View all]

[lostincalifornia]

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"Russell Vought, the Trump loyalist who’d just been named director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as well as acting director of the CFPB. Farman hadn’t heard of Vought before he became CFPB director, which is pretty much how Vought likes it. A self-described “boring budget guy,” he’s best known for co-authoring the 900-page policy playbook of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which has become something of a bible for Trump’s second term. Vought’s think tank, the Center for Renewing America, has produced numerous policy papers that advocate for such Trump fixations as the annexation of Greenland (“a prudent aim,” according to a CRA paper) and enacting broad tariffs (“just as sometimes a nation must go to war with guns and bombs, so sometimes are trade wars necessary”), among others. At the center of Vought’s ideology is the unitary executive theory, which critics say amounts to an argument that Trump should have wide latitude to do whatever he wants.

Vought’s unique combination of loyalty and knowledge of how the government actually works makes him perhaps the most powerful person in Washington not named Donald Trump. If you see a Republican politician or a member of the Trump administration talking about the “deep state,” or the “regime,” there’s an almost 100% chance they know his work. “Nobody in DC has a better grip on the numbers and the management process of the federal government than Russ Vought,” says Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist. “He’s one of the critical architects of the Trump restructuring of the US government.” This includes Musk, who’s been in regular contact with Vought from the start of the presidential transition and is seen by Vought’s allies as the public-facing arm of his agenda."

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-russell-vought-doge-musk-trump/?srnd=homepage-americas

Among all the other deplorables who make up this degenerate administartion, Vought is pure evil, diligently working to destroy Democracy in the United States.

The committee approved his nomination in an 11–0 vote (with all 9 Democrats and 1 Independent boycotting the committee vote due to January 2025 federal spending freeze). The U.S. Senate confirmed Vought's nomination on February 6, 2025 with a 53–47 vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought#:~:text=The%20committee%20approved%20his%20nomination,with%20a%2053%E2%80%9347%20vote.

He is the poster child for Christian Nationalism, or more appropriate, the anti-christ.