Russell Vought – from Project 2025 to Trump’s shutdown enforcer

Donald Trump was a warning to Democrats.

Soon he will decide the “democratic agencies” that you will make and whether these cuts will be temporary or permanent.

He said that the closure of the government, which began on Tuesday, gave him an “unprecedented opportunity.”

“I held a meeting today with Russians Vogue, which is from Project 2025 Family,” was published on his social site on Thursday morning.

Vought, director of the White House management and budget office, may not be a familiar name.

But the project 2025, a conservative plan for the ruling that former Trump officials gathered in the first place, such as Vogue when the Republicans were out of power, appeared prominently during the presidential campaign last year.

The 900 -page policy document included proposals for significant discounts in the size of the federal government, the expanded presidential authority, the enforcement of strict immigration, the prohibition of miscarriage at the country level and other elements of a very enthusiastic social agenda.

Often it was described by the democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, as the “Trump’s dangerous plan” for the future if he will win.

At that time, in an effort to reassure unlimited voters, Trump tried to stay away from the policy document.

Trump wrote in July 2024: “I don’t know anything about the 2025 project. I do not agree with some things they say and some things they say are very silly and vital.”

Now, however, Trump uses the conservative scheme as a threat to make Democrats agree to his budget demands. It carries Vought, who composed a chapter on the use of the executive authority, as a kind of budget death owners, is ready to take a scythe to government programs near Democrats.

If the designated metaphor is not clear, Trump participated on Thursday night in a satirical simulator video created by AI on Truth Social with Vogue, which was filmed as Grim Reaper, which was modified on the words of Blue Oyster Cult’s Don Do’t Fear the Reale.

In Capitol Hill, Republican leaders repeated Trump’s heavy White House’s description.

“We don’t control what he will do,” said John Thun, Republican Senate Leader. “This is the risk of closing the government and delivering Russian keys.”

Senator Mike Li, from Utah, said Fox News that Fior was “preparing for this moment since puberty.”

This may be a little exaggeration, but Vought, who cut his teeth as an employee in Congress in the Republican Budget Falcons and helped manage the pressure arm on the Heritage Corporation, a conservative research tank, has a wealth of experience in drilling through the complications in the federal budget.

He spent a year as deputy director of the budget office at the White House during the first period of Trump, where he rose to be its manager in 2019. Unlike many who served with Trump during those first four years, Fion was establishing power – and was quickly re -installed as head of the budget office when Trump returned this year.

“He represents many of those who are no longer an old way of thinking,” said Richard Stern, Director of Heritage Economic Policy, such as Vogue, who started his career in conservative Congress budget circles. “Ross was ahead of his time in the first period and on time now.”

Although Vought is not ashamed of the controversial statements – he once said that he aspires to be the “person who crushes the deep state” – he does not seem exactly part of my fans.

Public statements usually contain steel and counterpart, with a gray beard, the signed rhythm of the beans or professor. It lacks the narrow intestine and the discourse that abandons Stephen Miller, another Trump adviser for a long time who oversees the immigration policy in the White House.

However, do not make mistakes, but Vought has become an influential player in this White House, after turning the management and budget office – is usually referred to as OMB – to the main engine behind Trump’s push to reduce government spending and its working power.

Earlier in the year, he worked closely with Elon Musk and the so -called government efficiency, or “Doug”, where they cut the path of the burned land through the federal government, and multiple agencies are closed and the size of the entire departments is reduced. He continued for efforts after Moses and Douj left a large extent of public opinion.

“Ombe is an essential strong position, but it has never been used in this way,” Stern said. “Its people tend to tickets and allow bureaucracy to grow slowly. It is an effect as the person who possesses that the chair wants to make it.”

Trump has now unleashed at a time, due to the legal forgetfulness created by the government, the discounts may be deeper and more durable than those that Dog put earlier this year.

Former NPR Gings -Speaker, NPR, told NPR that Vought and his team are preparing for this type of circumstances exactly while they were in the political wilderness during Biden years.

“They all knew that closing the government was possible,” he said. “I think they decided early that you will only get the size of the change they want if you are very difficult and very designed and every opportunity you get, you are seizing the opportunity.”

The opportunity this closure of budget clips such as Vought is that without approved financing from Congress, the government operates in a legal gray area with lower budget restrictions.

The White House, in theory, can cut financing and employees deeper than it could earlier in the year, when spending was governed by basic allocation amounts. While permanent workers still have to adhere to a 60 -day notification, Vaght can start that time watch whenever he chooses and Trump.

Vough has already announced the main infrastructure projects in New York City and Chicago, indicating the need for a review of illicit racist employment practices – a review he said could not take place during the closure. He also canceled nearly $ 8 billion in clean energy projects in 16 states, all of which supported Harris, Trump’s opponent, in the presidential race last year.

Democrats and federal workers’ unions promised to fight these cuts in the court and claimed that Trump is largely aimed at great threats to try to pressure them to abandon the battle.

Many economists have indicated that discounts in the White House were accompanied by other policies of deficit, which could undermine their attacks on Democrats as a financial non -responsibility party.

“Republicans are increasing spending in other areas and lowering taxes at the same time,” said Brett House, a professor of economics at the Columbia University’s Business College. “The idea that they are devoted to financial caution is not proven through their actions.”

Some Republicans in Congress have expressed concern that the apparent bliss that Trump promotes can be transformed from public opinion against them if the closure extends.

Republicans have warned of the dire consequences of closing on government services – part of a concerted effort to depict Democrats as officials. Doing this while celebrating the new methods that the administration cuts its programs can hinder these efforts.

“Ross is less than political than the president,” South South South Dakota, Kevin Kramer, a member of “Doug Cocos”, told the news site in Sephor.

“We, as Republicans, have not had many high moral reasons for a government financing bill in our lives … I do not see the reason for it, which I think is the danger of aggression with the executive authority at this moment.”

Thom Tills, a member of the Senate in North Carolina, who chose not to run for his re -election next year, warns that administration officials “need to be truly careful” on how to provide any new discounts.

The directed layoffs and program discounts were largely directed to a large extent, according to Obioni’s general surveys, which caused clouds to obtain the presidential approval categories. This can be risky now.

According to Stern, the White House, and Vogue, may look at the long -term benefits in addition to short -term challenges.

“For myself, myself, to anyone in the budget, this country goes bankrupt,” he said. “Whatever the political dangers to try to do the right thing, we have to do it. If we do nothing, this country will explode.”