‘Our Democracy Is at Stake’: Democrat Calls Out Nomination of ‘Project 2025’ Author
Trump nominated Russell Vought to top OMB
A senior Democratic senator is sounding the alarm over Donald Trump’s nomination of the architect of the far-right Project 2025 to head up the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Trump’s pick, Russell Vought, authored Project 2025, the manifesto that Trump is using the consolidate power and dismantle key parts of the federal government.
Several years in the making, Project 2025 seeks to lard the federal government with Trump loyalists, ousting much of the career workforce.
It also seeks to rollback civil rights, dismantle the federal Education Department and much more.
Trump’s choice of Vought to head OMB — he once had a similar role in the first Trump administration — has scared many Democrats, including Sen Patty Murray, of Washington State.
She was asked what Americans should know about Vought.
“That American people across this country and in every community understand that our democracy is at stake with someone like russell vote, who doesn’t believe that we should follow the Constitution or the laws or the democratic procedures we have always followed in order to make sure that we are passing funding for people in my state and across the country on the priorities that we debate and vote on in Congress,” said Murray, first elected more than 30 years ago. “He has specifically said that he will violate the law. He doesn’t believe in it. He doesn’t believe that this democracy should work that way. He just simply believes that whoever is president can make the decisions about where your tax dollars go.
“Well, you know what? Every American gets to vote for their member of Congress, for their senator because they get to listen and say, is this person going to fight for me and my state for the issues that we care about, go to Congress and work with others to help make sure our state works, that we are prosperous, that what we need is on the table and not dismissed by whoever’s Republican who’s ever president,” she added. “And why is that important? We don’t know who the future president is. I do not understand why Republicans aren’t thinking ahead, that maybe they’re pretty happy with Trump making decisions for who gets the funding streams for the next few years, but they are not going to have a Republican president forever. And do they want to cede this power, this own power, that they have to be a voice for their constituents to any president in the future?
“That is what’s at stake. And the very real consequences are so clear to us now, because we have an unelected billionaire who is going into every agency and is messing with the records, deciding that he’s going to stop funding here or stop funding there, not merely by a stroke of a pen, but by shutting down websites or portals so people can’t get access to their information,” Murray said. “This is dangerous. It is outrageous. And [Democrats] are standing on the [Senate] floor to make clear what is at stake for our country, and we’re fighting back.”
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