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President-elect Donald Trump tapped Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought to service arsenic the manager of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during his 2nd administration.
Vought served arsenic Trump's OMB lawman director during his archetypal word successful the Oval Office.
"I americium precise pleased to nominate Russell Thurlow Vought, from the Great State of Virginia, arsenic the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB)," Trump wrote successful a post on Truth Social connected Friday.
"He did an fantabulous occupation serving successful this relation successful my First Term - We chopped 4 Regulations for each caller Regulation, and it was a Great Success!" helium added successful the post.
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, antecedently 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.
The task makes a wide scope of argumentation proposals, possibly astir notably reshaping the powers of the enforcement branch. It besides calls for striking assorted tiny authorities agencies and rolling backmost backing for abortions and support of the termination pill mifepristone.
