Russ Vought: key Project 2025 figure set to continue Trump cuts after Musk exit
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Russ Vought's longstanding mission to reduce the size of the federal workforce and enhance presidential authority is now approaching success, aided by Elon Musk's exit from federal government initiatives. As OMB director, Vought, a prominent figure in the conservative Project 2025, has sought to instill fear in civil servants whom he views as obstacles to an unimpeded Trump agenda. His collaborations with Musk aim to create lasting budget cuts, a strategy intertwined with a quest for ideological dominance in federal governance.
Vought has worked closely with Musk to ideologically reshape the federal workforce, aiming to instill a sense of fear among civil servants and cut funding drastically.
We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.
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