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A self-avowed Christian Nationalist, Vought is a wonky bureaucrat and Washington insider committed to Trump’s obsession with “draining the swamp.” During Trump’s first term, he tested the boundaries of the law to advance the president’s radical goals. Founder of the conservative think-tank Center for Renewing America, he is also one of the architects behind the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 mandate for Trump’s comeback, advocating for expanding presidential powers and subjugating the federal government.

While in charge of OMB, Vought spearheaded the effort to implement Schedule F, an executive order meant to strip thousands of career civil servants from job protections and replace them with handpicked MAGA loyalists. Vought has talked about putting federal workers ‘in trauma” and make them “not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.”

“In addition to Vought’s intention to dismantle the civil service,” a statement submitted by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) opposing his nomination reads “the Senate cannot ignore his willingness and intentions to misuse his own authority and craft plans for the president to subvert the law and, in the process, American democracy.”

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[–] pelespirit 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just in case you need more info:

Vought said he is overseeing the drafting of hundreds of executive orders, regulations and secretarial memos, to help make the US conservative movement’s radical goals a reality. These include plans for the “largest deportation in history” – a promise also made by Trump – and a proposal to use the military against US citizens to suppress large-scale protests in response. This will, Vought said, help to end multiculturalism in the United States.

But, according to Vought and a close aide, also secretly recorded as part of CCR’s investigation, the public won’t get to see these documents before the next Presidential election, or potentially ever. They are top secret. The plan is to share them clandestinely with Trump’s transition team, to avoid them being obtained by journalists via freedom of information requests.

“Eighty percent of my time is working on the plans of what’s necessary to take control of these bureaucracies,” Vought said, “And we are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agency’s notion of independence — they’re independent from the President — whether it’s bringing back concepts that ruled until Nixon of impoundment — the ability to not spend money — whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work. Those are all the things that we are working on predominantly right now.”

https://climate-reporting.org/undercover-in-project-2025/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This will, Vought said, help to end multiculturalism in the United States.

I would love to hear him explain what, exactly, is and is not American culture.

Pizza? Tacos? Christmas? None of those were invented here.

[–] admin 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe they are looking to protect the fundamental american root values such as Whites Only Neighborhoods, and hating diversity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Racism wasn’t even invented in America

[–] admin 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about homeowner associations to curb or deter certain unwanted individuals from living within a community? Was that invented in the United States?

[–] Jiggle_Physics 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is what your neighbors and coworkers wanted. Not to mention all the people who couldn’t get off their asses to vote.

Gonna be a hard lesson for a lot of people to learn. They didn’t learn in 2020, so I don’t know that the coming hardships are going to change anything.

[–] zarkanian 2 points 1 week ago

They didn't learn in 2016. Or 2012. Or 2008. Or 2004. Or...really any election I can think of