Post AyiAwD17F9uLfTRTlI by nomdeb@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #Ayi94213pQy1xR1E9I by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:37:03Z
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The Man Behind #Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful PresidencyRussell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential #power & shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode #ChecksAndBalances.#RussVought #Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/russell-vought-trump-budget.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #Ayi9I4bezjBM2spjyy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:39:58Z
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#RussVought, the #WhiteHouse budget [#OMB] director, was preparing the #Trump admin’s 2026 budget proposal this spring when his staff got some surprising news: #ElonMusk’s cost-cutting team was unilaterally axing items that Vought had intended to keep.Vought, a numbers wonk who rarely raises his voice, could barely contain his frustration, telling colleagues that he felt sidelined & undermined by the haphazard chaos of the #Musk-led #DOGE, acc/to 6 people w/knowledge of his comments….#law
(DIR) Post #Ayi9Rd4WDq1RXot99c by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:41:55Z
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“We’re going to let #DOGE break things, & we’ll pick up the pieces later,” #RussVought told his staff during one flash of irritation, according to 3 of those people. Vought’s spokeswoman, Rachel Cauley, denied that he made those comments, & that he felt frustrated by #Musk.This had not been Vought’s plan.#Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
(DIR) Post #Ayi9cFWy5VkdibG9qq by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:43:48Z
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#RussVought, who also directed the White House #OMB in Trump’s first term, had spent 4 years in exile from power. He worked through Joe #Biden’s presidency from an old rowhouse near the Capitol, where he complained of pigeons infesting his ceiling & coordinated with other #Trump loyalists to draw up sweeping, detailed plans for a comeback.#Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
(DIR) Post #Ayi9jUWSkN8QF3Tats by Yoshi@toot.community
2025-09-29T21:45:06Z
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@Nonilex Aww, poor widdle baby. Hope he blows his brain out in frustration.
(DIR) Post #AyiA4EgsnxaZDmF4gS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:48:54Z
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#RussVought had carefully analyzed mistakes from the first term. And he had laid out steps to achieve the long-sought conservative goal of a president with dramatically expanded #authority over the #ExecutiveBranch, including the #power to cut off #spending, #fire employees, control #independent #FederalAgencies & #deregulate the #economy.#Musk, who spent >$250M to help elect #Trump, had celebrity, access to the president & political capital that the budget director could never hope for.
(DIR) Post #AyiAHUlEMrU6pIb9aC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:51:18Z
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But #RussVought had something #Musk did not: He had done his homework.In the months since Musk fell out with #Trump, Vought has at last begun to put his plans into action—remaking the presidency, block by block, by restoring powers weakened after the #Nixon admin. His efforts are helping Trump exert #authority more aggressively than any modern president, & are threatening an erosion of the longstanding #ChecksAndBalances in America’s constitutional system.#Project2025 #law #democracy #fascism
(DIR) Post #AyiAZvO2714ycLXGc4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:54:38Z
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Now, as the #government heads toward a #shutdown when #federal #funding lapses on Tuesday, #RussVought, 49, is leveraging the moment to further advance his goals of slashing agencies & purging employees, with his office telling agencies to prepare for #MassFirings unless #Congress can strike a deal to keep the government open.#Project2025 #Trump #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
(DIR) Post #AyiAmxGASWt4Bw4OX2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:56:59Z
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…At the heart of #RussVought’s plan, associates say, is the INTENTIONAL engineering of a #legal battle over #Congress’s #power to decide how #government money is spent, potentially creating a new legal precedent for the president to block #spending on any #programs & #policies he dislikes.#Trump #Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
(DIR) Post #AyiAwD17F9uLfTRTlI by nomdeb@mstdn.social
2025-09-29T21:58:37Z
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@Nonilex setting aside the authoritarian subject matter for a moment, what stands out to me also in this article is what anyone who pays attention knows. Musk is always too lazy to do his homework. He has not a strategic bone in his body. He just flings things at the wall to see what might stick. We see that time and again in any of his endeavors. More fool Tesla investors. #TeslaTakedown #Musk
(DIR) Post #AyiAz9hy0CKGH4tGoy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T21:59:11Z
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The next step in the fight is a legally untested maneuver in which the #Trump admin would cancel another $4.9 billion in foreign #aid #spending — this time without congressional approval. The gambit, known as a “#PocketRescission,” involves the White House eliminating the spending unless #Congress votes to stop it by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.#RussVought #Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
(DIR) Post #AyiB60XiTdebsMMaLg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-29T22:00:25Z
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The threat has enraged many lawmakers, including some #Republicans: Senator Susan Collins, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, called it #illegal. But as the deadline has neared, they have done nothing to stop it. #RussVought is confident that the White House would win a #SCOTUS battle over the moves to stop spending, according to his associates.#Trump #Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny