Russell Vought

Well, some of these people will have to be impeached.

I mean, I've introduced articles of impeachment, uh, against Russell Vought, uh, the, uh, proprietor of Project 2025.

He has been working incredibly illegally.

Um, and there are a number of under secretaries and assistant secretaries and secretaries that have been doing the dirty work for this president.

We were hoping for eight years to do what we wanna do, so maybe, maybe we were gonna be a little bit more patient.

Now, you know, I, I look at my, my, my, um, my deputy who's now, uh, in charge of OMB, Russ Vought.

I think Russ is do- is working 18 hours a day to try and do as much as he can with what little time they have available to them.

That's the biggest difference to me.

An MVP.

A OMB Director, Russ Vought, who is watching the costs, and he's watching them better than anybody knows.

He knows more about that than anybody, along with Representatives Mike Lawler.

They call him Mr.

So we got our hands on a letter that was signed by over 100 all Democratic lawmakers, but really just kind of pointing this out to Jeremy Lewin.

I'm sorry, not Jeremy Lewin, to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the White House budget chief, Russell Vought, just saying there's $7.5 billion in international affairs funding.

What's going on? And are you impending to spend it? Now, important for our readers, kind of if you break down this pot of cash, there's $3 billion that were previously stated for global health funding.

And then there's also several other billions of dollars for development funding and for other kind of pieces of the aid puzzle that we used to see.

And I think we have to stress that at the end of the day, these are white supremacists.

Talk to us about how this is the ideological glue that ties together, say, a Stephen Miller, a Russell Vought, who's part of the Christian nationalist movement, and an Elon Musk and a Peter Thiel, who are all type of evil Voltron in the Trump White House right now.

Fascism is about hierarchy, and it's men over women, whites over non-whites, Western cultures over non-Western cultures, Christianity over all other religions, or the thermodynamic God over all other religions, the abled over the disabled, straight people over LGBTQ people, the rich over the poor, and on and on and on.

And white supremacy, white male supremacy...

They replaced old members with Trump allies, and just here four days ago, Mark Paoletta is a key Donald Trump, uh, uh, uh, legal ally, somebody that has been currently serving as the general counsel of the Consumer Protection Bureau, but somebody who was down at Mar-a-Lago during the course of the 2024 transition, helping build out what his Department of Justice would look like.

He's somebody that is a close friend and ally to Russ Vought, the OMB director.

That is the person that just in the last week Donald Trump named to be the chair of the National Planning Commission, the folks that are going through and approving all of these different projects across Washington, DC.

And so, yes, while on paper here, you know, y- you are supposed to have Congress authorize these projects, and technically you're supposed to have these different review boards and agencies.

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But Trump would need help if he wanted to maximize the power of his office, from a master bureaucrat and a self-described radical, Russell Vought.

Washington has a spending problem.

Vought has been the mastermind behind some of Trump's biggest power grabs, testing the limits of legality.

When a bill did finally pass- Trump got over a billion dollars for steel fencing, but he wanted more.

The White House sees it really as a middle finger to President Trump.

Russell Vought helped come up with a solution: declare a national emergency at the border with Mexico.

As a result, his Office of Management and Budget simply took nearly four billion dollars that was lawfully assigned to the military's budget to fund the wall.