Russ Vought
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Number three is dramatically going at restoring at-will employment as far as you can. A lot of ideas on the agenda, but...
You only want it from the standpoint of control if you want to be able to say, you're going to spend what I tell you you're going to spend. It is nothing more than an institutional desire to, to force the president to spend an X amount of money. But again, it's never just about that. It's always about where they have tried to innovate it from really the progressive era.
You only want it from the standpoint of control if you want to be able to say, you're going to spend what I tell you you're going to spend. It is nothing more than an institutional desire to, to force the president to spend an X amount of money. But again, it's never just about that. It's always about where they have tried to innovate it from really the progressive era.
You only want it from the standpoint of control if you want to be able to say, you're going to spend what I tell you you're going to spend. It is nothing more than an institutional desire to, to force the president to spend an X amount of money. But again, it's never just about that. It's always about where they have tried to innovate it from really the progressive era.
Like they wanted congressional government. That was the title of Woodrow Wilson's book. He wanted a system where essentially the agencies... largely worked out of the Congress or associated with Congress, not unlike what you would see in the House of Commons, right, where their cabinet lives in their House of Parliament.
Like they wanted congressional government. That was the title of Woodrow Wilson's book. He wanted a system where essentially the agencies... largely worked out of the Congress or associated with Congress, not unlike what you would see in the House of Commons, right, where their cabinet lives in their House of Parliament.
Like they wanted congressional government. That was the title of Woodrow Wilson's book. He wanted a system where essentially the agencies... largely worked out of the Congress or associated with Congress, not unlike what you would see in the House of Commons, right, where their cabinet lives in their House of Parliament.
And it's largely, you know, the monarch, the executive over time becomes toothless. That's essentially what they have wanted and have pursued at every turn here. And you saw that on steroids with them using the events of Watergate to promulgate new paradigms and ways of binding the constitutional system from working.
And it's largely, you know, the monarch, the executive over time becomes toothless. That's essentially what they have wanted and have pursued at every turn here. And you saw that on steroids with them using the events of Watergate to promulgate new paradigms and ways of binding the constitutional system from working.
And it's largely, you know, the monarch, the executive over time becomes toothless. That's essentially what they have wanted and have pursued at every turn here. And you saw that on steroids with them using the events of Watergate to promulgate new paradigms and ways of binding the constitutional system from working.
So everything post-Watergate is largely, you can just make an assumption, it's not the way it was meant to work. And so you have our guys defending post-Watergate paradigms instead of trying to think through, okay, let's go back. Let's go back to what the founders would have actually envisioned.
So everything post-Watergate is largely, you can just make an assumption, it's not the way it was meant to work. And so you have our guys defending post-Watergate paradigms instead of trying to think through, okay, let's go back. Let's go back to what the founders would have actually envisioned.
So everything post-Watergate is largely, you can just make an assumption, it's not the way it was meant to work. And so you have our guys defending post-Watergate paradigms instead of trying to think through, okay, let's go back. Let's go back to what the founders would have actually envisioned.
laws that have been passed, perhaps not challenged, laws that have been passed that give them bargaining power, that give them certain processes that have to be followed before they can be dismissed. But I think in that, and it certainly made it very, very hard to hire and fire, the current system
laws that have been passed, perhaps not challenged, laws that have been passed that give them bargaining power, that give them certain processes that have to be followed before they can be dismissed. But I think in that, and it certainly made it very, very hard to hire and fire, the current system
laws that have been passed, perhaps not challenged, laws that have been passed that give them bargaining power, that give them certain processes that have to be followed before they can be dismissed. But I think in that, and it certainly made it very, very hard to hire and fire, the current system
needs to be changed but it also can be used to deal with these same kind of actors if you're willing to do it and i don't want to get into all of the tools that are available right but they exist you know one of them is the you know the reduction force i mean you you can and vivek has talked about this i mean you can proceed on the basis of what is good for the efficiency and the effectiveness of the agency
needs to be changed but it also can be used to deal with these same kind of actors if you're willing to do it and i don't want to get into all of the tools that are available right but they exist you know one of them is the you know the reduction force i mean you you can and vivek has talked about this i mean you can proceed on the basis of what is good for the efficiency and the effectiveness of the agency
needs to be changed but it also can be used to deal with these same kind of actors if you're willing to do it and i don't want to get into all of the tools that are available right but they exist you know one of them is the you know the reduction force i mean you you can and vivek has talked about this i mean you can proceed on the basis of what is good for the efficiency and the effectiveness of the agency
to be able to dramatically lower at a macro level the size of the workforce. And that will give you certain legal abilities to begin to move people off of the payroll. So, there's a lot of things that are being creatively discussed in this space, but it has to be front and center. Schedule F, as President Trump has already run on, that seems to be like a day one thing.