2025-02-10 11:01:58

Russell Vought: Trump’s office of management and budget head who wants federal workers to be ‘in trauma’

The Christian nationalist expressed that the government should be brought to heel by a powerful executive branchIf federal employees are feeling traumatized right now, Russell Vought, the new head of the office of management and budget (OMB), probably has something to do with it.“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in a video revealed by ProPublica and the research group Documented in October. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.” Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget

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