Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the highest Democrat on the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee, and committee member Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) condemned President-elect Trump for tapping Undertaking 2025 co-author Russell Vought to function the director of the Workplace of Administration and Price range (OMB) throughout his second administration.
“After vehemently denying his hyperlinks to Undertaking 2025 by the marketing campaign, the President-elect simply tapped its lead architect, Russell Vought, to run his coming all-of-government purge as Director of the Workplace of Administration and Price range,” the lawmakers mentioned in a joint assertion.
Vought served as Trump’s OMB deputy director throughout Trump’s first time period within the Oval Workplace.
Vought penned the chapter on the Government Workplace of the President of america — which largely references OMB — in The Heritage Basis’s Undertaking 2025, a “governing agenda” full of conservative priorities and perception from students and coverage consultants.
Trump on the marketing campaign path sought to distance himself from the playbook, beforehand saying he has “nothing to do with it,” particularly because it got here beneath hearth for a few of its extra controversial insurance policies. Democrats launched a marketing campaign earlier this 12 months to push again on Undertaking 2025, forming a process drive to combat what they mentioned is a risk to the establishments of American democracy and authorities.
Of their assertion, Raskin and Stansbury hit Vought on choices he made whereas serving Trump’s first administration, like finishing up an government order signed by Trump in 2020, which took intention at variety coaching for presidency employees by prohibiting the educating of “divisive concepts.”
“As Democratic Members of the Home Oversight Committee, the headquarters of resistance to this plan, we’ll combat Vought’s radical agenda, act to guard very important authorities companies the American folks rely on, and stand as much as defend our fellow residents who’re honorable federal employees each step of the way in which,” they mentioned within the assertion.
