Russell Vogt

I have spent my entire career caring about taxpayers and families.

I come from a blue-collar family.

I'm the son of an electrician and a public school teacher.

I know what they went through to balance their budget and save for the future.

My parents worked really long hours to put me through school, but they also worked long hours to pay for the high levels of government in their own life.

My old boss called them the wagon pullers in our country.

Others have referred to them as the forgotten men and women.

They have always been my test for federal spending.

Did a particular program or spending increase help the nameless wagon pullers across our country working hard at their job, trying to provide for their family and future without the luxury of watching C-SPAN at that particular moment to know that we might increase their burden at that minute?

Washington has a spending problem and it endangers the future prosperity of our nation for generations to come.

And we are saying to the American people, we can no longer afford the paradigm that Congress keeps giving us, which is that we're never going to make any tradeoffs, that we're never going to align what we spend with what we take in.

One of the arguments that they're using in the press against me right now, as they say, he called for trauma within the bureaucracies.

Yeah, I called for trauma within the bureaucracies.

The bureaucracies hate the American people.

You go every agency and it's not just big government.

It's weaponized against the country.

Of course.

And so, yeah, we we I would want to provide trauma against that bureaucracy in a way that frees the American people from the people that have assumed the type of power that the Constitution and no law, no public debate ever gave them.

bring back the notion of impoundment.

And this is something that... Of what?