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Stop Project 2025 January 23, 2025 News Briefs
Convicted 34-time felon
and President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Russ Vought, Trump's former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director and a self-described Christian nationalist, poses a significant threat to every American as Trump's nominee to lead the OMB again. As a key architect of Project 2025, Russ Vought has played a pivotal role in crafting its 180-day playbook to consolidate presidential power through sweeping executive orders, regulations, and memos. He continues to lead these efforts through his organization, the Center for Renewing America (CRA), which he founded and he serves on the Project 2025 advisory panel.
Key elements of Russ Vought's agenda include:
Attacking Essential Programs: Vought championed Trump's budgets, proposing devastating cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—lifelines for millions of Americans.
Risking Economic Chaos: He encouraged House Republicans to use reckless brinkmanship over the debt ceiling, threatening an economic crisis and default.
Undermining Democracy: Vought's backing of the radical "Schedule F" plan to strip away the rights of federal employees and his handprint on Project 2025’s agenda seeks to gut federal protections and inject partisan politics into government institutions.
Lack of Integrity: His record of withholding critical information from Congress, including during the Ukraine aid scandal, highlights a troubling disregard for transparency and accountability.
Weaponizing Investigations: Vought and his allies have called for an "army of investigations" to prosecute perceived ideological adversaries, heightening political polarization and undermining institutional neutrality.
Extreme Deregulation: As a lead architect of Project 2025, Vought's aggressive deregulatory blueprint threatens workers' rights, environmental protections, and the well-being of American families.
Christian Nationalist Agenda: Vought's policy positions are deeply tied to his self-identified Christian nationalist ideology, which seeks to intertwine religion with governance and advance a far-right political agenda to replace democracy with an autocratic theocracy.
America deserves leadership focused on building a stronger, fairer future—not someone trying to dismantling it.
Why It Matters
Russ Vought's track record and role in Project 2025 reveal a calculated effort to dismantle institutional protections, expand presidential authority, and erode federal agency independence. Installing Russ Vought as Executive Director of OMB directly threatens public programs, economic stability, and the democratic principles we rely on. Vought, who currently heads an extremist MAGA organization, is unfit to manage America's budget and far too extreme to prioritize the health, safety, well-being, and public good of the American people.
America deserves leadership grounded in unity and dedicated to the greater good, not driven by extreme political ideologies. Russell Vought is a clear and present danger to everyday Americans and should be removed from serious consideration for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) role.
Time is of the essence. We need to get loud and keep amplifying a NO Vote on Vought.
What Can I Do?
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Call your Senator (202) 224-3121 and tell them to oppose Russ Vought's nomination for OMB Director:
Hi there! I am a constituent who lives in ________, and I am calling to urge the Senator to vote NO on the nomination of Russ Vought as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director. He is too extreme, dangerous to our rights, freedoms, democracy, the rule of law, and a danger to our national security. America deserves leadership grounded in unity and dedicated to the greater good, not driven by extreme political ideologies. Please vote NO on Russ Vought.
You are also encouraged to call any and all Senators on the committees that are doing oversight on Vought, Homeland Security and Government Affairs is first up, followed by Senate Budget Committee. Final Senate vote likely the week of January 20, 2025.
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Keep taking action—your voice matters! Repeat the calls to action above and check back daily for updates. Every submission and social media post brings us closer to stopping this dangerous appointment. Together, we can make a difference—don’t let up!
Stop Project 2025 Video News - January 23, 2025
Looking Back: “Russ Vought-one of the architects of Project 2025: We Want the Bureaucrats to Be Traumatically Affected” | ProPublica
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Ask them to Speak out against Project 2025 and the unqualified and extreme nominations by Trump: Ask them to publicly condemn this dangerous agenda that threatens our rights, freedoms, and democracy. Silence is not an option. Keep calling to ensure they make public statements.
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