President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Russell Vought, co-author of Project 2025, to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in his second administration.
Mr. Vought served as OMB deputy director during President Trump's first term in the Oval Office.
“I am very pleased to nominate Virginia native Russell Thurlow Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),” President Trump said. post on Friday Truth Social.
“He took on this role during my first term and did a great job. We cut four rules for every new one, and it was a huge success,” he added in the post. .
Vought wrote a chapter on the U.S. presidential executive branch that primarily mentions OMB in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a “Governance Agenda” packed with conservative priorities and insights from academics and policy experts. did.
During his campaign, Trump came under fire for some of his more controversial policies, and previously sought to distance himself from the strategy, saying he had “nothing to do with it.” Democrats launched a campaign to block Project 2025 earlier this year, forming a task force to combat what they say is a threat to American democracy and institutions of government.
The project makes a wide range of policy proposals, perhaps the most notable being the reorganization of executive branch powers. It also calls for strikes in various small government agencies and cuts to abortion funding and approval of the abortion drug mifepristone.
