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Meet Elon Musk’s Puppet Master: Russell Vought
The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.
While making his official exit from the White House, Elon Musk has repeatedly griped that he and his Department of Government ...
Director Russell Vought was grilled by both sides of the aisle over the administration’s sweeping cost-cutting plans as he ...
The OMB director shared plans with House lawmakers for a post-Elon Musk DOGE, further entrenched in agencies and funded by ...
With members embedded in multiple agencies, the team’s approach to transforming government is becoming “institutionalized,” ...
Now comes Russell Vought, architect of Project 2025, of which the president, of course, knew nothing, to explain that Elon Musk had some good ideas in his mind among the dancing pink kangaroos. Vought ...
Vought tells House appropriations subcommittee that actions target "weaponized bureaucracies" while Democrats describe crying ...
Now comes Russell Vought, architect of Project 2025 ... and to continue the DOGE cuts. Vought said that one of the executive tools the administration has is the use of “impoundment,” which ...