May 19, 2025 6:38:08 pm
If you thought Elon Musk was a problem, think again. Donald Trump will come and go, but the policies instituted under the direction of Trump’s new OMB, architect and co-author of Project 2025, Russel Vought, will permanently alter the fabric of American society.
A self-described Christian nationalist, Vought is the founder of the Center for Renewing America, an organization that opposes critical race theory and advocates for the idea of America as a “nation under God”. He has also played a significant role in Project 2025, an initiative led by the Heritage Foundation that aims to advance conservative policies and reshape the federal government.
CRA has an affiliated issue advocacy group, American Restoration Action. According to Axios, the groups “will provide the ideological ammunition to sustain Trump’s political movement after his departure from the White House.”
On June 22, 2022, Vought confirmed that federal agents conducted a search of the home of his organization’s director of litigation, Jeffrey Clark, a former U.S. Department of Justice official who participated in efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In October 2024, ProPublica reported on speeches Vought had made at Center for Renewing America events. According to the report, Vought’s proposals included plans to reshape government by using military force against protesters if deemed necessary, to defund agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the purpose of reducing federal influence, and to cast civil servants as obstructive to conservative agendas.
Project 2025 includes proposals to reclassify tens of thousands of merit-based federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with Republican loyalists.
A 920-page Mandate for Project 2025 was published in April 2023. Dark money contributions from a network of fundraising groups were received by nearly half of the organizations collaborating in the project.
INCREASINGLY EVIL: Vought graduated from the evangelical Christian Wheaton College and describes himself as a Christian nationalist. He seeks to infuse the government and society with elements of Christianity, saying he has “a commitment to an institutional separation between church and state, but not the separation of Christianity from its influence on government and society”, according to The Washington Post.
In a secretly recorded meeting in 2024, Vought said that conservatives should discuss whether to prioritize Christian immigrants over those of other religions. Vought supports a total ban on abortion. He has called the Democratic Party “increasingly evil” for supporting secularism.
The video shows Vought describing his secretive efforts to prepare executive orders for a potential second Trump administration, as well as his “expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict pornography and immigration, and his complaints that the GOP was too focused on ‘religious liberty'”.
Since 2022, Vought has advocated for what he calls “radical constitutionalism” to reverse what he calls a current “post-Constitutional time”; he asserts this has been the result of a century of corruption of laws and institutions by the political left.
He characterizes the federal bureaucracy as “woke and weaponized” and advocates replacing it with “radical constitutionalists”. Vought proposes to “gut the FBI” and end the tradition of political independence of the U.S. Justice Department. – Wiki –
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB’s most prominent function is to produce the president’s budget, but it also examines agency programs, policies, and procedures to see whether they comply with the president’s policies and coordinates inter-agency policy initiatives. – Wiki –