President Trump has nominated Russell Vought to serve as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Recently, he was a lead architect of the right-wing policy agenda known as Project 2025, and has particularly focused on a sweeping overhaul of the federal civilian workforce and on remaking the administrative state as a tool to advance the Trump administration’s political ideology. He also served as OMB Director in the first Trump administration. Vought has also affirmed in his January 2025 Senate confirmation hearing that he supports President Trump’s use of impoundment, or refusing to spend federal funds in the way that Congress has instructed agencies to do, an action the Supreme Court has deemed unconstitutional (as Congress holds the “power of the purse” over the executive branch of government).
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