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Russell Vought – from Project 2025 to Trump's shutdown enforcer

Soon he will decide what "Democrat agencies" he would cut and whether those reductions would be temporary or permanent.

He said the government shutdown, which began on Tuesday, had afforded him an "unprecedented opportunity".

"I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame," he posted on his Truth Social website on Thursday morning.

Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, may not be a household name.

But Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for governing put together primarily by former Trump officials like Vought when the Republicans were out of power, featured prominently during last year's presidential campaign.

Trump is finally ready to talk about Project 2025

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They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts:

Did he just not understand that thing that he said earlier?

The answer could be some combination of all three, especially in the case of Thursday’s post, and the “unprecedented opportunity” Trump says he now has to hack away at federal agencies during the government shutdown.

It has to do with the man widely seen as the architect of the shutdown: Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, or as Trump described Vought in the post, “he of PROJECT 2025 Fame.”

The dynamic landscape of current events often brings forth significant discussions. Monitoring these developments provides crucial insights.

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