Russ Vought

But I would find that I wasn't read into certain things until they needed my signature. Right. So once they needed some reason to get my signature, then all of a sudden I get this brief, right? And that's not the way it should be. If you're trying to provide oversight and accountability, you don't know what you don't know. And so you have to be able to have the whole entire –

uh landscape of things that you could oh that that's interesting that we we should do something that president trump wouldn't like that and i find that was very restrictive unless they needed me and so i basically said look you i'm not gonna you are not getting my signature unless you get me briefed up and i want i want to access to all of these things that i need to be able to provide oversight for the federal government and one of the things that we did tucker is that

uh landscape of things that you could oh that that's interesting that we we should do something that president trump wouldn't like that and i find that was very restrictive unless they needed me and so i basically said look you i'm not gonna you are not getting my signature unless you get me briefed up and i want i want to access to all of these things that i need to be able to provide oversight for the federal government and one of the things that we did tucker is that

uh landscape of things that you could oh that that's interesting that we we should do something that president trump wouldn't like that and i find that was very restrictive unless they needed me and so i basically said look you i'm not gonna you are not getting my signature unless you get me briefed up and i want i want to access to all of these things that i need to be able to provide oversight for the federal government and one of the things that we did tucker is that

Since the rise of OMB, that ability to turn funding on and off had always been done by a career individual, not a political appointee. And so we changed that. And it was like the world was going to end. They said, look, you're going to destroy the agency. You can't handle the bandwidth anymore. You can't handle the bandwidth. The chaos will be unmatched. And we changed it.

Since the rise of OMB, that ability to turn funding on and off had always been done by a career individual, not a political appointee. And so we changed that. And it was like the world was going to end. They said, look, you're going to destroy the agency. You can't handle the bandwidth anymore. You can't handle the bandwidth. The chaos will be unmatched. And we changed it.

Since the rise of OMB, that ability to turn funding on and off had always been done by a career individual, not a political appointee. And so we changed that. And it was like the world was going to end. They said, look, you're going to destroy the agency. You can't handle the bandwidth anymore. You can't handle the bandwidth. The chaos will be unmatched. And we changed it.

And next thing you know, everything's flowing across our desk. Oh, that's interesting. We're not doing that. You know, it was just amazing. And if you don't know and have that thesis that says this is what must be done, you could be the most incredible conservative in the world.

And next thing you know, everything's flowing across our desk. Oh, that's interesting. We're not doing that. You know, it was just amazing. And if you don't know and have that thesis that says this is what must be done, you could be the most incredible conservative in the world.

And next thing you know, everything's flowing across our desk. Oh, that's interesting. We're not doing that. You know, it was just amazing. And if you don't know and have that thesis that says this is what must be done, you could be the most incredible conservative in the world.

You could be the most policy consistent person with the president, but you don't know how to put your hand in the glove and use that agency for the president's behalf. The president's not going to be able to be well served at that agency.

You could be the most policy consistent person with the president, but you don't know how to put your hand in the glove and use that agency for the president's behalf. The president's not going to be able to be well served at that agency.

You could be the most policy consistent person with the president, but you don't know how to put your hand in the glove and use that agency for the president's behalf. The president's not going to be able to be well served at that agency.

You will certainly read on the papers like chaos. That's good. Fair. You know, as to what's what what just is normal, good government behind the scenes, managing, pushing, pushing through whatever. I think it can be done very quickly. wisely and done in a way that anyone who had a bird's eye view into that would be able to say, that's exactly what we put this administration into office.

You will certainly read on the papers like chaos. That's good. Fair. You know, as to what's what what just is normal, good government behind the scenes, managing, pushing, pushing through whatever. I think it can be done very quickly. wisely and done in a way that anyone who had a bird's eye view into that would be able to say, that's exactly what we put this administration into office.

You will certainly read on the papers like chaos. That's good. Fair. You know, as to what's what what just is normal, good government behind the scenes, managing, pushing, pushing through whatever. I think it can be done very quickly. wisely and done in a way that anyone who had a bird's eye view into that would be able to say, that's exactly what we put this administration into office.

But yeah, you're going to have to kick over people's paradigms. You're going to have to kick over people's turfs. You're going to have to change people's understanding of things that they have invested their whole life into a view of the world. And none of this is – their views of the world aren't rooted in the Constitution and in some cases any version of the facts.

But yeah, you're going to have to kick over people's paradigms. You're going to have to kick over people's turfs. You're going to have to change people's understanding of things that they have invested their whole life into a view of the world. And none of this is – their views of the world aren't rooted in the Constitution and in some cases any version of the facts.

But yeah, you're going to have to kick over people's paradigms. You're going to have to kick over people's turfs. You're going to have to change people's understanding of things that they have invested their whole life into a view of the world. And none of this is – their views of the world aren't rooted in the Constitution and in some cases any version of the facts.

But you're going to – that's going to cause a lot of turmoil within these bureaucracies and you've got to fight through it. And then they're going to overlay the aspect of, oh, my gosh, you guys are racist and you guys don't care about us as people. You're going to have to deal with that too, right? They are –