Russell Vought, President-elect Trump’s choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today at 1:00pm.
Russel Vought is on track to repeat his role as OMB director, which he helmed at the end of Trump’s first term. If confirmed, he’ll lead the office that oversees the implementation of the president’s vision across the executive branch, including the development and execution of the federal budget.
Vought was also a key author of the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. The Senate will go bananas over this point of contention. Vought penned a section that touches on the executive office of the president. Livestream Links Below.
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I bet he kicks democrat butt
It doesn’t seem to be that hard from the showing of Trumps nominees….unless you happened to be Paul Ryan.
Ha, good one.
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“The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced from it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.”
–Thomas Jefferson, 1797
The competition Trump had before, tried knocking everything he was doing down…
Did I miss how to donate? He mentioned Zelle but I didn’t see how to donate. This man is a true blue American helping his neighbors and people in dire need. God bless him and theses people on his land.
Love this guy. This man has all the numbers.
He even knowns how much the dark agencies are costing us. Critical to know for cost:benefit analyses. We cannot keep spending with zero public accountability. It is out money, after all.
For those who have forgotten his interview with Tucker, or for those who never watched it.
Outstanding….
President Trump has selected the right man for this job.
Godspeed, Mr Vought 🙏🏻🇺🇸
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-russ-vought
Thank you Betsy! Excellent interview. A true Patriot! Highly recommended. Praise God!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Most welcome…
You can’t but listen to that interview, and not love and trust Mr. Vought’s heart and intentions. What a man!
Betsy, I had not read all the comments before posting the Carlson link to see you had already posted it. 😀
It is good enough to post twice! If you had missed it, others may as well.
Doesn’t hurts to double up, Chloe. It was excellent I thought 👍🏻
His conversation with Tucker was spellbinding! He does know what is going on and fully spoke of the difficulties of the job. But, he spoke of how to avoid the pitfalls. (people) He will be interesting to watch.
Vought is sharp, saw an interview with him, maybe Tucker, Vought is what OMB needs.
So they need time to review for a confirmation, but NONE for 10,000+ pages of law?
Our congress critters are truly showing how worthless they are in the job they were elected to do. Of course, they take their directions from lobbyist and others who foul the earth. Now we don’t just know, now we have witnessed the incompetence that has been helping Biden, the most incompetent critter ever to hold the office of President.
Well said, Daniel! Astute comparison that we should remember!
PETERS
UKRAINE, UKRAINE
” CAREER EMPLOYEES “
“….who work tirelessly!” NO Government worker works tirelessly. You have to WORK to become tired and most never show up at their offices.
“works tirelessly” a favorite liberal cliche.
When I was an executive, I would never hire an ex-gov’t employee, ’cause I knew what I would get.
IMO, most gov’t employees aren’t smart or hard-working enough to survive in the private sector. They’d be fired in no time. I didn’t want the hassle.
200 years of practice of refusal to waste money…. yeah, I always knew that was the case. An “act” does not supercede the powers of the president as assigned by the constitution.
When congress has the power to legislate money going to “black hole laundering service” a CHECK on that power should be that the executive be able to evaluate that legislation before executing it.
If Russel did a good job during his first term why the need to waste time with another hearing?
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to ” justify ” RAISING CAMPAIGN Money for Re – SELECTION
The task ahead after four years of total lack of any agency oversight by Biden will be an entirely new task.
How will he approach both his present duties and untangle four years of total Biden mess. He needs to explain the enormity of the task ahead,
Vought is trying out for two jobs today; not just one:
Vought is also there to expose and slow the spigot on congresses money laundering.
That’s what Peters and other congresspeople are so angry about.
That why they are giving Vought a hard time and how it’s hard for Vought to prove he’s not a threat to their spending habits. Which is pretty much what Peters tried to get him to promise.
Here’s a thought: Project 2025 is conceived as a damaging document to be associated with Trump. That is its sole purpose. Put crazy things in there to get your base constituents, the left, riled into righteous anger. You know the play.
Here’s the new part. You asked people who could potentially be in Trump’s admin to contribute to this doc. They write in good faith and their ideas, proffered by them, are reasonable, conservative positions. But, these contributors are now tarnished by association because they had no idea what the other parts of the doc had, otherwise they would have refused.
This could be the play by the left. It would require assets, people on the right who work for the regime, to set up the trick within the conservative movement and against Trump and his people.
Blumenthal indirectly begging for more Ukraine money.
Does the president have the power to set interest rates? GREAT QUESTION! “Officially” the Federal Reserve (which sets interest rates) is under the Executive Branch. Constitutionally, it would follow the president has authority to set interest rates. If he doesn’t, then the Federal Reserve is extra-constitutional and illegal under the constitution.
Excellent
These high credit card rates are usury, as stated by President Trump. It is no different from “predatory loans.”
They forced everyone to buy masks and supplements and storage food during the pandemic (Amazon made money) and now are beating us over the head and shoulders trying to bankrupt middle America.
Sen Andrew Kim –
CAREER POLITICIAN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kim_(politician)
This is too funny. Will you share your daily schedule? Yes.
Collective Bargaining agreements “against the government” are unconstitutional as this undermines the powers issued by the US Constitution. Imagine a collective bargain agreement reached under one president leaving ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS being unable to change? What’s more, the manner in which such unions operate, union leadership often becomes the boss in place or instead of the PRESIDENT.
He seems to be handling this great. I do not why he makes me think of Paul Giamatti but he does.
Love the fruit of the vine. Just not the really expensive stuff. Lean towards imports, little or no sugar. Rarely are the grapes grown in central Texas, (my home). Too craggy. They come from sandy soil in West Texas. MR52 gave me a nice break from the pompous wind bags.
That movie had my sides hurting so bad from laughing.
Hey from a fellow central Texan
Loved the movie!
OMB? There is no budget, and there is no management. Why are we paying for another position to waste money, congress does a Cheerio job of that. Good grief Charlie Brown.
I’d rather have an executioner position open up for corrupt politicians. They get to amass every salary they reduce for a year.
Or how about the office of wayward affairs. A bounty for every corrupt congressman removed without severance.
Or a really novel idea, FBI, IRS, uphold the law for everyone not just the peons.
Executive Branch??? Can we make sure that in the future a Lame Duck president has no power after 10 days upon becoming a lame duck. All business , after 10 days must be approved by the newly elected President to be. That’s like killing two birds with one stone.
Good idea but would need some sort of Constitutional Amendment to implement. Better to shorten the Lame Duck period to a couple of weeks at the most. We don’t need to get Electoral College delegates to DC by stage coach anymore. Once the delegates verify the election then the new President can be sworn in.
Word of the day: bureaucratic.
Peters won by checking in the Wayne County election. Peters need to get his ass thrown out.
By all means, let the idiots go
BS crazy and let the bananas fly!!
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-fbi-conduct-international-operation-delete-malware-used-china-backed
I am scratching my head on this one.
The issue of trust.
The issue of trust:
1. It’s amazing a ceasefire is accomplished re. Israel-Hamas and hostages, hopefully still alive and well, will be coming home soon.
2. It’s amazing that Russia and Ukraine are winding down hostilities.
3. It’s amazing that red dye No.3, after 34-years of warnings to the FDA, is going to be removed from our food supply by 2027-2028. This proven carcinogenic ingredient is aka erythrosine.
Who would know on a food label that erythrosine was really red dye No. 3?
So, the administration is making all these things happen asap. So, why now? Weren’t these things imperative to solve before now?
We all could go on and on with other stories ……
It’s an issue of trust.
It would be interesting if an OMB director would publish the cost .. in terms of national debt … that has been incurred by not following regular order, per the law, with respect to budget Bills passed by congress … as well as the cost in terms of national debt to all the reprogramming of money away from authorized budget lines has cost …. there are a host of things Congress and Executive branch have done over the past 25 years related to the IRREGULAR Process used to “budget //sarc”, authorize and spend Tax Money.
That report would get allot of hearts in DC beating cross ways if published.
Looking at YOU DOGE Masters … if this guy is approved … USE HIS OFFICE to assist you.
Though Rand Paul does take a moment to say that Congress is complicit in the spending problem… It really is largely a congress problem, not the OMB. Congress writes the laws and controls the purse strings. Am I wrong?
Omb suggests budgets to the president who promotes it to congress who writes the final draft. Am I wrong?
Sen Peter’s points more relevant responsibilities of omb. However, just about every complaint Peters had was about omb notnspending money congress demanded be spent (impoundment).
I found myself conflicted because congress is passing bad laws and self dealing and I approve omb supposedly breaking the law to slow the spigot on government expenditures I disapproved of.
Vought explained his efforts to claw back (impound) funds on policies that conflicted with the Executive’s policy objectives on tucker (also linked to in the treehouse).
Perhaps his interview on Tucker gave Peters got his talking points.
See my post above. A Federal Budget has NOT been legally approved BY CONGRESS using the regular order process prescribed by law, since 2008.
An OMB report on the damage done because of this fact as well as the manner CONGRESS allows money to easily be diverted away from AUTHORIZED BUDGET LINES would cause a firestorm if it ever came to light or was even commissioned.
Nothing says DOGE could not request such a report.
OMB would not be breaking the law. The Executive Branch has responsibilities with Respect to the Budgeting Process as well as making the Spending Outlays (commitments), once the Budget is Authorized by CONGRESS.
The entire process was broken back in 2008, when CONGRESS flat started ignoring the Presidential Budget Proposals and literally allowed the Executive Branch to outlay (commit) money wherever they saw fit to do so with WIDE OPEN Spending Authorizations written into the Budget Mechanisms (CR, Emergency, Omnibus, reconciliation, et al) Congress passed. This process guarantees spending will NEVER EQUAL Taxes collected…because since 2008, very few of the authorized Budget Lines (in all the budget mechanisms passed) ever receive all the money they were authorized to spend, as budget authorized is spent on the cause or emergency of the day and not the authorized budget line.
The Executive Branch (including the OMB) have fiduciary obligations to the citizens who elected the President, to keep outlays = to taxes collected … as well as stay within the LAW (BILL) passed by Congress. This is why the regular order budget process is needed.
His interview on Tucker late last year: https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-russ-vought
Worth a watch to understand how DC money works.
If we believe that uncontrolled federal spending is the most important and consequential threat to the nation’s economic and national security that we now face, then Russ Vought is the most important and consequential nominee now being presented for Senate confirmation.
Vought’s interview about a month ago with Tucker was fascinating. https://rumble.com/v5qqg6q-tucker-carlson-and-russ-vought-break-down-doge-and-all-of-trumps-cabinet-pi.html
Love our Russ Vought!!
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/6607/nominee-russell-vought-confirmation-hearing
I don’t have the stomach to try to watch to the hearings, but it would be fun if Russell Vought found an opportunity to inquire about the validity of the existence of The Office of Management and Budget since the United States Congress has not presented a budget for well over a decade.
It should be called The Office of Management of Continuing Resolutions.
Love this guy. One of the hardest-core wonks ever to crack open a can of quantitative whupazz in Washington DC.
Rubio is not a trustworthy pick, imo.
Hope I am wrong.
Trump alone, IS our last shot at MAGA and MAHA..
Tucker had a great interview with him a month or so ago. I was very impressed with him.
The point the Democrat Senators were making about forced spending of money that has been appropriated gets right to the heart of the issue with the budgeting process. No business would ever operate that way. Circumstances change, and just because they prospectively decided that was money that should be spent, it doesn’t mean it is prudent or advised to spend it as time passes. That will inevitably ratchet the deficit up. That, and their refusal to do zero based budgeting institutionalizes and makes permanent every dollar that is budgeted and spent. Favorable variances on a line item level are critical to optimal financial management, and their philosophy ensures there will never be any.
“The Justice Department was “ground zero for the weaponization of the government against the American people. Conservatives are waking up to the fact that federal law enforcement is weaponized against them and as a result are embracing paradigm-shifting policies to reverse that trend.”
~ Russ Vought
6-15-2023
Peters is an absolute dickhead… Rude, impatient, reckless, spendthrift, insulting. Like a petulant child who throws a tantrum. An odious grifter.