Hard on the heels of the announcement of President-elect Trump’s choice for Treasury Secretary, he’s now revealed the new director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), calling the nominee “an aggressive cost cutter”….”who will help us implement our America First Agenda across all Angencies.”
He wrote:
I am very pleased to nominate Russell Thurlow Vought, from the Great State of Virginia, as the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He did an excellent job serving in this role in my First Term – We cut four Regulations for every new Regulation, and it was a Great Success! Russ graduated with a B.A. from Wheaton College, and received his J.D. from the Washington University School of Law. Russ has spent many years working in Public Policy in Washington, D.C., and is an aggressive cost cutter and deregulator who will help us implement our America First Agenda across all Agencies. Russ knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State and end Weaponized Government, and he will help us return Self Governance to the People. We will restore fiscal sanity to our Nation, and unleash the American People to new levels of Prosperity and Ingenuity. I look forward to working with you again, Russ. Congratulations. Together, we will Make America Great Again!
Russ was a very successful OMB chief in Trump 1.0. He’s a budget hawk and will work well with other members of Trump’s immediate staff and the DOGE duo of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Beyond that, Russ has spent four years on the bench thinking about how to do what didn’t happen last time around—it’s called Project 2025.