{"id":2374340,"date":"2024-11-29T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-signals-slash-and-burn-approach-with-return-of-russell-vought-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T12:17:45","slug":"trump-signals-slash-and-burn-approach-with-return-of-russell-vought-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-signals-slash-and-burn-approach-with-return-of-russell-vought-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signals &#8216;slash and burn&#8217; approach with return of Russell Vought &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-signals-slash-and-burn-approach-with-return-of-russell-vought-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2374340&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The selection of \u2063Russell Vought as the budget chief for President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s administration signals a strong commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-the-ways-americans-benefit-from-republicans-voting-to-expel-george-santos-there-are-none-except-for-democrats\/\" title=\"No benefits for Americans from Republicans voting to expel George Santos, except for Democrats!\">reducing government\u2064 spending<\/a> and waste, according to supporters. Vought previously held \u200bthe \u2063same position and is regarded as an \u2062&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-chooses-russ-vought-for-budget-director-reprising-his-role-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump chooses Russ Vought for budget director, reprising his role - Washington Examiner\">aggressive cost cutter<\/a> and deregulator.&#8221; Trump expressed \u200dconfidence in\u200c Vought&#8217;s ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taps-musk-and-ramaswamy-for-government-efficiency-department-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump taps Musk and Ramaswamy for government efficiency department - Washington Examiner\">dismantle government bureaucracy<\/a> and return power to the\u2063 public, highlighting his role as a \u200ckey advisor on budget matters.<\/p>\n<p>Vought&#8217;s mandate includes focusing on significant cuts to federal spending,\u2063 while still\u200c pursuing costly initiatives like \u200ca national deportation agenda. He is noted for his \u2064participation \u200cin the \u2063controversial \u200dProject 2025, \u2064which outlines \u200dambitious plans for a second Trump term but faced criticism and disassociation from the president-elect during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>During Trump&#8217;s initial\u200d term, Vought proposed budget \u2062cuts primarily aimed \u200cat non-defense\u200b spending \u200cand sought to change the employment framework for government policy staff. \u2064His advocacy for \u2064restoring a\u200c legal theory called &#8220;impoundment&#8221;\u2014that would allow presidents to withhold \u2062funds appropriated by Congress for their policy goals\u2014has raised concerns about \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reinstates-ban-on-evicting-renters-threatens-landlords-with-jail-time-up-to-250k-fines\/\" title=\"Biden Reinstates Ban On Evicting Renters; Threatens Landlords With Jail Time, Up To 0k Fines\">potential legal challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vought and the Office of \u200cManagement\u200d and Budget (OMB) will work \u200cclosely with a new \u200bDepartment\u200d of Government\u2062 Efficiency, though there are warnings \u2063about the\u200c legal \u2063ramifications of \u200cmass dismissals of federal workers.\u2064 the administration&#8217;s strategy indicates a rigorous \u200capproach to governmental reform and\u200c spending restraint.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">&lsquo;Slash and burn&rsquo;: Trump&rsquo;s budget chief shows &lsquo;total&rsquo; commitment to shrinking government<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1896771\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s selection of Russell Vought as the incoming administration&rsquo;s budget chief illustrates Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;total&rdquo; commitment to curbing government spending and eliminating waste, according to allies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump nominated Vought to serve as director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> Office of Management and Budget, the same post he held for the latter part of Trump&rsquo;s first year in office, dubbing him an &ldquo;aggressive cost cutter and deregulator.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Russ knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State and end Weaponized Government, and he will help us return Self Governance to the People,&rdquo; Trump wrote when announcing Vought&rsquo;s selection. &ldquo;We will restore fiscal sanity to our Nation, and unleash the American People to new levels of Prosperity and Ingenuity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220465\/what-trump-promised-day-one-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WHAT TRUMP HAS PROMISED TO DO ON DAY 1 IN THE OVAL OFFICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At OMB, Trump world figures say, Vought will serve as Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;right-hand man&rdquo; inside the White House when it comes to trimming the federal government&rsquo;s topline budget while still pursuing costly policies like a national deportation agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Russ might end up being the most consequential member of President Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet,&rdquo; one former Trump administration official told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;He knows his way around the White House, and he&rsquo;s going to be instrumental when it comes to rolling back government overreach and getting the&nbsp;deficit back under control.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Slash and burn. That&rsquo;s the mandate,&rdquo; a second former Trump official added when asked what Vought&rsquo;s focus during a second Trump stint would be.<\/p>\n<p>A Trump campaign staffer additionally told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that curbing government spending will have Vought&rsquo;s &ldquo;total&rdquo; attention. <\/p>\n<p>Vought was one of more than 100 former Trump administration officials to have a hand in crafting the Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s Project 2025, a controversial purported agenda for Trump&rsquo;s second term in office that caused the president-elect some trouble on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Vought authored Project 2025&rsquo;s chapter on the Executive Office of the president, where he argued that the federal bureaucracy &ldquo;all too often is carrying out its own policy plans and preferences &mdash; or, worse yet, the policy plans and preferences of a radical, supposedly &lsquo;woke&rsquo; faction of the country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025 during the lead-up to Election Day, and Trump transition team co-chairman Howard Lutnick claimed that no one associated with the initiative would land an administration job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3232494\/trump-wants-to-abolish-the-department-of-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>HOW TRUMP&rsquo;S PROMISE TO ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WOULD WORK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have no idea who is behind it,&rdquo; Trump said of Project 2025 on social media over the summer. &ldquo;I disagree with some of the things they&rsquo;re saying and some of the things they&rsquo;re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During the first Trump term, Vought consistently produced budget requests that cut virtually all non-defense spending and was a key component of Trump&rsquo;s attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">open career government policy staffers<\/a> to at-will terminations. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a> eventually rescinded Trump&rsquo;s aforementioned Schedule F order after being sworn into office in January of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>And since Trump left office, Vought has also argued that Trump should resuscitate&nbsp;a little-known legal theory, impoundment, as a means of circumventing budgetary restrictions set by Congress. The practice has been effectively illegal since the Nixon administration, yet Trump allies want to test the limits. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe the loss of impoundment authority &mdash; which 200 years of presidents enjoyed &mdash; was the original sin in eliminating the ability from a branch &hellip; to control spending,&rdquo; he said during an interview with Fox Business earlier this year. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to need that back.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump himself also alluded to impoundment, which sees a president simply refusing to spend funds previously appropriated by Congress as a means of pursuing their own policy goals, on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3223892\/president-elect-donald-trump-cabinet-picks-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP CABINET PICKS: WHO&rsquo;S BEEN TAPPED TO SERVE IN THE PRESIDENT-ELECT&rsquo;S ADMINISTRATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OMB and Vought are expected to work closely with the newly instituted Department of Government Efficiency, and co-chairmen Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, but legal scholars do say that the Trump team runs the risk of lawsuits if they make good on plans to unilaterally fire large swathes of government workers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To the extent that you could try to implement it unilaterally, you would need some kind of authority to impound &mdash; to just not do what Congress has said you&rsquo;re supposed to do,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/26\/nx-s1-5195528\/trump-impoundment-government-cuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> Bowdoin College professor Andrew Rudalevige, who specifically studies the powers of the presidency. &ldquo;It&rsquo;ll lead pretty directly to constitutional conflict, but that, I think, is the only way that you could impose unilaterally presidential wishes in this area.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump advisers believe that the Supreme Court would side with the administration on an impoundment decision, a view shared by South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The most relevant data point is that Chief Justice John Roberts worked in the Reagan White House,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/26\/nx-s1-5195528\/trump-impoundment-government-cuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> NPR. &ldquo;I think he&rsquo;d be very sympathetic to the arguments that were so influential in his earlier career, so I think Trump might actually have a shot at this one.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1896771\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1896771\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s budget chief, Russell Vought, shows strong commitment to cutting government spending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2374341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/trump-omb.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5894,45854,45855,3634],"class_list":["post-2374340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-politics","tag-russell-vought","tag-slash-and-burn","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/trump-omb.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374344,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374340\/revisions\/2374344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}