Shadow President: How Russell Vought Is Using Shutdown to Gut Federal Agencies
www.democracynow.org
We look at the influence of Trump’s top budget adviser and the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, over the Trump administration’s policies and Trump himself. Vought is “the driving force behind the [government] shutdown” and “basically a second commander-in-chief, a shadow president,” says ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll, who spent months researching Vought for an extensive profile on the Office of Management and Budget director. During this second Trump administration, Vought’s deeply conservative ideology has been unchallenged by a compliant Congress, Kroll explains, placing unprecedented power into the hands of the executive branch.

Vought is “the driving force behind the [government] shutdown” and “basically a second commander-in-chief, a shadow president,” says ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll, who spent months researching Vought for an extensive profile on the Office of Management and Budget director. During this second Trump administration, Vought’s deeply conservative ideology has been unchallenged by a compliant Congress

  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
    19·
    3 days ago

    More media needs to be talking about how Donald is so far gone he needs someone else to do things for him. He’ll love to hear that.

    Might even kick out those acting on his behalf for saying to steal the spotlight

    • joekar1990@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 days ago

      The media is too spineless and fears retribution. Most of the large networks people watch are owned by trump supporters anyways.

    • klammeraffe@lemmy.cafeBanned
      2·
      3 days ago

      It will never be rebuilt. It’s over. The best we can hope for is it being split up and reformed into different countries.

      Which I’m fine with, but we’ll be dead before it’s a good place to live again.

  • classic@fedia.io
    3·
    3 days ago

    The fact that this post was above this other one… Reality is just too on the nose nowadays img