Russ Vought

But it is it is the president's most important tool to dealing with the bureaucracy, administrative state. And, you know, the nice thing about President Trump is he knows that and he knows how to use it effectively.

No. You will be in a situation where you will have, at best, really awesome cabinet secretaries who are dealing on, sitting on top of massive bureaucracies that largely don't do what they tell them to do. And you have to have statutory tools at your disposal that force that bureaucracy from the White House to get in line.

No. You will be in a situation where you will have, at best, really awesome cabinet secretaries who are dealing on, sitting on top of massive bureaucracies that largely don't do what they tell them to do. And you have to have statutory tools at your disposal that force that bureaucracy from the White House to get in line.

No. You will be in a situation where you will have, at best, really awesome cabinet secretaries who are dealing on, sitting on top of massive bureaucracies that largely don't do what they tell them to do. And you have to have statutory tools at your disposal that force that bureaucracy from the White House to get in line.

And that is really the main thing that OMB can accomplish in addition to what everyone would think of from a budget office, which is, yeah, you cut spending, you figure out how to deal with your fiscal finances and all of that.

And that is really the main thing that OMB can accomplish in addition to what everyone would think of from a budget office, which is, yeah, you cut spending, you figure out how to deal with your fiscal finances and all of that.

And that is really the main thing that OMB can accomplish in addition to what everyone would think of from a budget office, which is, yeah, you cut spending, you figure out how to deal with your fiscal finances and all of that.

They're incredibly resistant. I mean, think about Ukraine and the president in that first term wanted to cut off funding for Ukraine. Why? Because it's a corrupt country and we didn't know how it was going to be spent. It's totally normal policy process to go through that the people lost their minds about. But the bureaucracy was literally just ignoring it.

They're incredibly resistant. I mean, think about Ukraine and the president in that first term wanted to cut off funding for Ukraine. Why? Because it's a corrupt country and we didn't know how it was going to be spent. It's totally normal policy process to go through that the people lost their minds about. But the bureaucracy was literally just ignoring it.

They're incredibly resistant. I mean, think about Ukraine and the president in that first term wanted to cut off funding for Ukraine. Why? Because it's a corrupt country and we didn't know how it was going to be spent. It's totally normal policy process to go through that the people lost their minds about. But the bureaucracy was literally just ignoring it.

And quite frankly, his political appointees like John Bolton were ignoring him as well. And what we then did at OMB was I had been personally told, look, you know, I want the money cut off until we can figure out where it's going. And we cut the money off. And it was like all hell broke loose within the bureaucracy. We got impeached. Yeah. And so.

And quite frankly, his political appointees like John Bolton were ignoring him as well. And what we then did at OMB was I had been personally told, look, you know, I want the money cut off until we can figure out where it's going. And we cut the money off. And it was like all hell broke loose within the bureaucracy. We got impeached. Yeah. And so.

And quite frankly, his political appointees like John Bolton were ignoring him as well. And what we then did at OMB was I had been personally told, look, you know, I want the money cut off until we can figure out where it's going. And we cut the money off. And it was like all hell broke loose within the bureaucracy. We got impeached. Yeah. And so.

And so you have the ability at that point to bring them to come to heel and to do what the president has been telling them to do. And we can do that in foreign aid. We can do that all sorts of places.

And so you have the ability at that point to bring them to come to heel and to do what the president has been telling them to do. And we can do that in foreign aid. We can do that all sorts of places.

And so you have the ability at that point to bring them to come to heel and to do what the president has been telling them to do. And we can do that in foreign aid. We can do that all sorts of places.

No, and this is really, the left has innovated over 100 years to create this fourth branch of an administrative state. You and I might call it the regime, this administrative state that is totally unaccountable to the president that lets it move in the direction that it has been going.

No, and this is really, the left has innovated over 100 years to create this fourth branch of an administrative state. You and I might call it the regime, this administrative state that is totally unaccountable to the president that lets it move in the direction that it has been going.

No, and this is really, the left has innovated over 100 years to create this fourth branch of an administrative state. You and I might call it the regime, this administrative state that is totally unaccountable to the president that lets it move in the direction that it has been going.

Totally unconstitutional. And if you would have seen Woodrow Wilson bemoan our constitutional system, he would have wanted constitutional amendments. The left stopped talking about constitutional amendments because they innovated to this new fourth branch, which is totally different than anything the founders would have ever understood.