This post is an excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's substack post from June 4, 2025. It was too good not to share. Edited for brevity.
Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought ... appears to have determined the direction of the [DOGE] cuts, which did not save money so much as decimate the parts of the government that the authors of Project 2025 wanted to destroy.
Vought was a key author of Project 2025, whose aim is to disrupt and destroy the United States government in order to center a Christian, heteronormative, male-dominated family as the primary element of society. To do so, the plan calls for destroying the administrative state, withdrawing the United States from global affairs, and ending environmental and business regulations.
Vought appeared today before the House Appropriations
Committee, where … he claimed that under Biden “... every agency became a tool of
the Left.”
Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) told Vought:
“Be honest, this is never about government efficiency. In fact, an efficient government, a government that capably serves the American people and proves good government is achievable is what you fear the most. You want a government so broken, so dysfunctional, so starved of resources, so full of incompetent political lackeys and bereft of experts and professionals that its departments and agencies cannot feasibly achieve the goals and the missions to which they are lawfully directed. Your goal is privatization, for the biggest companies to have unchecked power, for an economy that does not work for the middle class, for working and vulnerable families. You want the American people to have no one to turn to, but to the billionaires and the corporations this administration has put in charge. Waste, fraud, and abuse are not the targets of this administration. They are your primary objectives.” [emphasis mine - Stan]
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