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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the apical Democrat connected the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, and committee subordinate Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) condemned President-elect Trump for tapping Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought to service arsenic the manager of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during his 2nd administration.
“After vehemently denying his links to Project 2025 done the campaign, the President-elect conscionable tapped its lead architect, Russell Vought, to tally his coming all-of-government purge arsenic Director of the Office of Management and Budget," the lawmakers said successful a joint statement.
Vought served arsenic Trump’s OMB lawman manager during Trump's archetypal word successful the Oval Office.
Vought penned the section connected the Executive Office of the President of the United States — which mostly references OMB — successful The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a “governing agenda” filled with blimpish priorities and penetration from scholars and argumentation experts.
Trump connected the run way sought to region himself from the playbook, previously saying he has “nothing to bash with it,” particularly arsenic it came nether occurrence for immoderate of its much arguable policies. Democrats launched a campaign earlier this twelvemonth to propulsion backmost connected Project 2025, forming a task unit to combat what they said is simply a menace to the institutions of American ideology and government.
In their statement, Raskin and Stansbury deed Vought connected decisions helium made portion serving Trump's archetypal administration, similar carrying retired an enforcement bid signed by Trump successful 2020, which took purpose astatine diverseness grooming for authorities workers by prohibiting the teaching of “divisive concepts.”
“As Democratic Members of the House Oversight Committee, the office of absorption to this plan, we volition combat Vought’s extremist agenda, enactment to support captious authorities services the American radical beryllium on, and basal up to support our chap citizens who are honorable national workers every measurement of the way," they said successful the statement.
