Russ Vought
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 18 Apr
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And or not, or are you going to say that there's some issue with regard to these cuts that we should actually be in the business of this? And I think it's going to be a very important debate. It's the first in a series of rescissions packages that we will, in fact, send. And depending on how successful it goes, we'll send more.
Final thoughts is that obviously economic growth and tariffs, but spending reductions and spending restraint is an enormous part of what's necessary to balance the budget. That's in two components, right? That's the first part is going after the woke and weaponized and wasteful bureaucracy. That is what we're doing with these doge cuts. That's what we'll be doing with rescissions.
And that will be over a 10-year period, incredible amounts of money. And I think the most important, because that's the federal government that you and I interact with. That's the one that is kind of aimed at us, increasingly less so with President Trump. But we want to make sure that the bureaucracy... can't reconstitute itself later in future administrations.
Secondly, there are reforms to welfare and to we will call them mandatory programs that have made the social safety net a benefit hammock. And that is keeping people out of the workforce and leading to less growth. And that's the kind of thing that we will need to tackle within the construct of reconciliation.
So when we do the one big, beautiful bill, there'll be a conversation about extending the tax cuts and securing the president's new tax cut commitments from the campaign, also designed to get people to be able to work more and not be penalized for it. But we will also be pushing for
mandatory savings, reforms to these programs that generate a ton of money that I think will unlock the votes to be able to get to. And that's what really we're working on last week. We were pushing the House to pass the Senate budget resolution because we thought it was an opportunity to go big. And so we're looking forward to that beginning now once the members come back.
Thanks, Charlie.
While America's roots are soaked in bloodshed, violence in the country today is mostly from right wing extremism. From Oklahoma City to Charlottesville to January 6th, there is simply no equivalent on the left.
Well, look, Larry, the president has recognized that 200 years of presidents had the ability to impound funds. And as a result, we're able to do a far better job of being able to control costs. And what we see at the end of fiscal year is agencies have the normal bureaucracy approach to use it or lose it.
what the impoundment control act does is come on and say look if you're trying to save money in the end of the fourth quarter and do things smartly oh my gosh that's that that's something that is a violation of the impoundment control act and what we see at the end of the fourth quarter is flat screen tvs and copy machines in the halls of every agency because they're just trying to push it out the door
The president is well aware of the authority that other presidents have had, and he has put forward on the campaign trail ideas on that front. We don't have anything to announce today, but this is certainly something he's well aware of the power that should exist with the executive branch.
Well, it defies common sense. It defies the Constitution. But the reality is this has been a key pillar of the Democrats' administrative state. And one of their principles is that career individuals and not political appointees are the ones that they want to rely on making decisions and shielding those of us who are political appointees from the actual information that we need
to make decisions based on what the president would do if he was in our shoes. And you can't do that if you don't have access to the information and you don't have the tools at your disposal to make sure everything's going across your desk that you need to know to be a sound representative of the president.
80% of my time is working on the plans of what's necessary to take control of these bureaucracies. And we are working doggedly on that, whether it's
George Floyd obviously was not about race. It was about destabilizing the Trump administration. We put out, for instance, a 50-page paper designed for lawyers to know that the president has... you know, the ability both along the border and elsewhere to maintain law and order with the military.
And that's something that, you know, it's going to be important for him to remember and his lawyers to affirm. But we've given them the case for that.
Let's see how it plays out.
So OMB is the nerve center of the federal government, particularly the executive branch. So it has the ability to turn on and off any spending within the— Office of Management and Budget. Office of Management and Budget. It has the ability to turn off the spending that's going on at the agencies.
It has all the regulations coming through it to assess whether it's good or bad or too expensive or could be done a different way or what does the president think. and then all of government execution. So anytime you have cabinet executive branches conflicting with each other or working together on something, for instance, you know, the wall, the president wanted to fund the wall.
We at OMB gave him a plan to be able to go and fund the wall through money that was at the Department of Defense and to use that because Congress wouldn't give him the ordinary money at the Department of Homeland Security. So it really is, presidents use OMB to tame the bureaucracy, the administrative state.
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