President-elect Donald Trump‘s collection of Russell Vought as the approaching government’s budget key illustrates Trump’s” full” commitment to curbing government spending and eliminating waste, according to allies.
” Russ knows exactly how to destroy the Deep State and stop Weaponized Government, and he will help us gain Self Governance to the People”, Trump wrote when announcing Vought’s choice. We will bring back governmental sanity for our country and give the people of America new wealth and ingenuity.
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According to Trump-related images, Vought may be Trump’s “right-hand person” inside the White House when it comes to slashing the federal government’s topline resources while still pursuing expensive measures like a federal deportation plan.
” Russ might end up being the most consequential member of President Trump’s Cabinet”, one former Trump administration official told the , Washington Examiner. He “knows his way around the White House,” and he will be key in bringing the government’s overreach under control and bringing the deficit back under control.
” Slash and burn. When asked what Vought’s area of focus would be during a second Trump administration, a second former Trump official replied,” That’s the mandate.”
Additionally, a Trump campaign official stated to the Washington Examiner that Vought will receive” total” attention for reducing government spending.
One of the more than 100 former Trump administration officials who contributed to the creation of Project 2025, a contentious purported agenda for Trump’s second term that caused the president-elect some trouble on the campaign trail, was Vought.
According to Vought, who is the author of Project 2025’s chapter on the president’s Executive Office, the federal bureaucracy” all too frequently is carrying out its own policy plans and preferences,” or worse, the policies and preferences of a supposedly “woke” faction of the country.
In the weeks leading up to Election Day, Trump repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025, and Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of the Trump transition team, claimed that no one involved with the initiative would ever find employment.
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Trump compared Project 2025 to” I have no idea who is behind it” over the summer on social media. ” Some of the things they’re saying and the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and awful,” I disagree. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them”.
Vought was a key component of Trump’s attempts to open career government policy staffers to at-will terminations during the first Trump administration, consistently producing budget requests that cut nearly all non-defense spending. After taking the oath of office in January 2021, President Joe Biden eventually revoked Trump’s previously mentioned Schedule F order.
And since Trump left office, Vought has also argued that Trump should resuscitate , a little-known legal theory, impoundment, as a means of circumventing budgetary restrictions set by Congress. Since the Nixon administration, the practice has effectively been deemed unlawful, but Trump allies want to challenge this rule.
In an interview with Fox Business earlier this year, he said,” I believe the loss of impoundment authority, which 200 years of presidents enjoyed, was the original sin. ” We’re going to need that back”.
On the campaign trail, Trump himself made reference to impoundment, which states that a president simply refuses to spend money that was previously allocated by Congress to pursue their own policy objectives.
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Legal experts claim that the Trump team runs the risk of lawsuits if they follow through on plans to unilaterally fire large swathes of government workers, but OMB and Vought are expected to collaborate closely with the newly established Department of Government Efficiency, co-chairmen Vivek Ramaswamy, and Elon Musk.
According to Bowdoin College professor Andrew Rudalevige, who specializes in studying the presidency’s power, “you would need some kind of authority to impound” on the idea that you could try to implement it unilaterally.” You’re just supposed to not do what Congress has said you’re supposed to do,” he said. ” It’ll lead pretty directly to constitutional conflict, but that, I think, is the only way that you could impose unilaterally presidential wishes in this area”.
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According to South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman, Trump advisers believe the Supreme Court would support the administration in a court case.
According to him, Chief Justice John Roberts worked for the Reagan White House, which is the most important finding. ” I think Trump might have a shot at this one because he’d be very sympathetic to the arguments that were so important in his earlier career.”
