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Russ Vought

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772 total appearances

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The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

Number three is dramatically going at restoring at-will employment as far as you can. A lot of ideas on the agenda, but...

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far

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.