Russ Vought
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I believe that there's a lot of policy issues downstream, the border, inflation, wars across the world. All of them are downstream of one reality, and that is we don't, the American people currently are not in control of their government, and the president hasn't been either.
We have to solve that. We have to solve the woke and the weaponized bureaucracy and have the president take control of the executive branch. So my belief for anyone who wants to listen is that you have to, the president has to move executively as fast and as aggressively as possible with a radical constitutional perspective to be able to dismantle that bureaucracy in their power centers.
We have to solve that. We have to solve the woke and the weaponized bureaucracy and have the president take control of the executive branch. So my belief for anyone who wants to listen is that you have to, the president has to move executively as fast and as aggressively as possible with a radical constitutional perspective to be able to dismantle that bureaucracy in their power centers.
We have to solve that. We have to solve the woke and the weaponized bureaucracy and have the president take control of the executive branch. So my belief for anyone who wants to listen is that you have to, the president has to move executively as fast and as aggressively as possible with a radical constitutional perspective to be able to dismantle that bureaucracy in their power centers.
And I think there are a couple of ways to do it. Number one is going after the whole notion of independence. There are no independent agencies. Congress may have viewed them as such, SEC or the FCC, CFPB, the whole alphabet soup. But that is not something that the Constitution understands. So there may be different strategies with each one of them about how you dismantle them. But
And I think there are a couple of ways to do it. Number one is going after the whole notion of independence. There are no independent agencies. Congress may have viewed them as such, SEC or the FCC, CFPB, the whole alphabet soup. But that is not something that the Constitution understands. So there may be different strategies with each one of them about how you dismantle them. But
And I think there are a couple of ways to do it. Number one is going after the whole notion of independence. There are no independent agencies. Congress may have viewed them as such, SEC or the FCC, CFPB, the whole alphabet soup. But that is not something that the Constitution understands. So there may be different strategies with each one of them about how you dismantle them. But
As an administration, the whole notion of an independent agency should be thrown out, particularly with the Department of Justice, in which there's literally no law. All it is is precedent from the Watergate era that the attorney general and those lawyers don't work for the president. And who do they work for? They think that they work for themselves. They think that they are.
As an administration, the whole notion of an independent agency should be thrown out, particularly with the Department of Justice, in which there's literally no law. All it is is precedent from the Watergate era that the attorney general and those lawyers don't work for the president. And who do they work for? They think that they work for themselves. They think that they are.
As an administration, the whole notion of an independent agency should be thrown out, particularly with the Department of Justice, in which there's literally no law. All it is is precedent from the Watergate era that the attorney general and those lawyers don't work for the president. And who do they work for? They think that they work for themselves. They think that they are.
I mean, they believe that they have the power for for all of the the prosecutions and that the president doesn't get a say in any of that. And we have to go at that as hard as we possibly can, whether that's the military. We have a whole military industrial complex of generals. And Tommy Tuberville kind of exposed this this last year with a fight about life.
I mean, they believe that they have the power for for all of the the prosecutions and that the president doesn't get a say in any of that. And we have to go at that as hard as we possibly can, whether that's the military. We have a whole military industrial complex of generals. And Tommy Tuberville kind of exposed this this last year with a fight about life.
I mean, they believe that they have the power for for all of the the prosecutions and that the president doesn't get a say in any of that. And we have to go at that as hard as we possibly can, whether that's the military. We have a whole military industrial complex of generals. And Tommy Tuberville kind of exposed this this last year with a fight about life.
But it really became a fight about whether we have a essentially – a military that is not subject to civilian leadership. So you can apply the concept of destroying independence at every agency. I even saw it in aspects of OMB with regard to who gets to make the decisions on statistics, right? Like there are little pockets of independence that have to be just, we got to remove those, right?
But it really became a fight about whether we have a essentially – a military that is not subject to civilian leadership. So you can apply the concept of destroying independence at every agency. I even saw it in aspects of OMB with regard to who gets to make the decisions on statistics, right? Like there are little pockets of independence that have to be just, we got to remove those, right?
But it really became a fight about whether we have a essentially – a military that is not subject to civilian leadership. So you can apply the concept of destroying independence at every agency. I even saw it in aspects of OMB with regard to who gets to make the decisions on statistics, right? Like there are little pockets of independence that have to be just, we got to remove those, right?
They're unconstitutional. Number two- So I am not a huge fan of the Fed. I can't I can't look at the Constitution and the massive decades long decisions that they have made totally undemocratic and and see that that is a place where there deserves to be an exception for.
They're unconstitutional. Number two- So I am not a huge fan of the Fed. I can't I can't look at the Constitution and the massive decades long decisions that they have made totally undemocratic and and see that that is a place where there deserves to be an exception for.
They're unconstitutional. Number two- So I am not a huge fan of the Fed. I can't I can't look at the Constitution and the massive decades long decisions that they have made totally undemocratic and and see that that is a place where there deserves to be an exception for.
No, because they're wrong, and they've been wrong for decades, right? Right. Let's go to zero interest rates for 11 years, see what happens. And see what happens. So President Trump hasn't run on that, and so I'm not going to speak.