OMB to be Run by Project 2025 Architect

The Senate has approved Russel Vought to be the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Vought also served at the end of Trump’s first term as the head of OMB. Russel Vought is the founder and president of the Center for Renewing America, a conservative organization that views critical race theory as a “radical philosoph(y) rooted in Marxism” and an author of the infamous Project 2025.

I’m not going to sugar-coat it; this is not good news. The OMB oversees the Federal budget and the President’s budget, meaning that any program that is to be federally funded must be in accordance with whoever leads it. Vought has written in his chapter of Project 2025 that the OMB could withhold money from agencies and fire large amounts of employees to make said agencies fall in line. Vought said in a interview with Tucker Carlson that Trump’s administration can make federal agencies, “come to heel and do what the president has been telling them to do.”

For those who don’t know, Project 2025 is a 920-page document written by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative organization that had a large hand getting Roe v. Wade overturned, that explains how the next conservative president can and should use the federal government to instil far-right Christian ideologies and attack things like reproductive rights, environmental protections, affordable healthcare, and more. All of these implementations, however, are things that this country was founded upon and not new concepts to disenfranchised groups like disabled people or people of color.

Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii says in protest of Vought’s appointment, “Americans need to know that OMB is extremely powerful, with oversight over the president’s budget and functionally all federal agency actions, including regulatory decisions.” She also says, “They (the head of OMB) need to put loyalty to the Constitution above loyalty to the President,” but we all know that an architect of Project 2025 is not going to tell Trump “no” or do anything that opposes his agenda.

Even though the democrats protesting his appointment were outvoted 53-47, that is still 47 people in the senate who disagree with this decision. This administration has done its best to make things seem like they are steam-rolling ahead and the country will just come to heel, but we are not done fighting back. Organizations like the ACLU are suing the Trump administration for their bigoted attacks and local communities all across the country are saying “no” to this fascist regime. We will take nothing sitting down.