What the fuck is this? [Wired]: Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free
It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.
https://www.wired.com/story/judge-approves-doge-usip-office-building/
Maine’s rural #libraries at risk as #Trump, #Musk, #StephenMiller, and #RussellVought gut agency that provides federal funding
Librarians say the cuts to the Institute of #Museum and #Library Services (#IMLS) will devastate #museums and libraries in #Maine and across the nation.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in one recording...
“We want to put them in trauma.”
Vought spoke openly about the ongoing planning to defund independent federal agencies and demonize government scientists...
So why didn’t this story drive more of a national conversation when it appeared?"
- @ProPublica
In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief writes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-russell-vought-prophetic-trump-second-term?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Table of #DOGE members.
(61 - 65) (of 68)
From #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#DOGE_members
61) #BradSmith, Chief of staff
62) #BrendanSpikes, Musk lieutenant, #OPM
63) #ChristopherStanley, Musk aide, OPM
64) #RussellVought, Director, #OMB
65) #JordanWick, Expert (coding), #CFPB
#Trump & #RussellVought lead on #Project2025 alum, plan to #impound federal #spending in direct violation of 1974 #Impoundment Control Act. This would prompt legal fight very likely decided by #SCOTUS & threaten separation of powers outlined in #Constitution.Trump Drafts Plans to Take Over #Congress Spending Powers. Donald Trump plans to make massive cuts to spending after Congress decides on the #budget..taking a wrecking ball to our democracy, nothing is stopping him https://newrepublic.com/post/192733/trump-plans-spending-cuts-congress-shutdown
#RussellVought: Trump appointee who wants #federalworkers to be ‘in trauma’ | #Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget
Chris Hedges: The Road to Dictatorship
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/19/chris-hedges-the-road-to-dictatorship/
Donald Trump’s dismantling of the Deep State presages the formation of something far worse. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny of intelligence…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Germany #Iran #SovietUnion #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AmericaFirstPolicyInstitute #ArtificialIntelligence(ai) #Bolsheviks #CenterForRenewingAmerica #ChrisHedges #ConservativePartnershipInstitute #DeepState #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency(doge) #ElonMusk #Fascism #HeritageFoundation #JosephRoth #JusticeAntoninScalia #LarryEllison #Nazis #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentVladimirPutin #Project2025 #Rep.ClaudiaTenny #RussellVought #Totalitarianism #UnitaryExecutiveTheory
I put out a satirical zine called Shut Yer Pie Hole. It's just print, but I am posting a full-page ad that will be placed in the upcoming issue:
#parody #satire #uspolitics #theboys #vought #RussellVought #trump #dei
/1 Wedge strategy
* don't start by going after big-ticket items that working Americans paid into for decades (Soc. Security)
* 1st first targets: things funded by U.S. government that seem most divorced f. day-to-day concerns (USAID)
* e.g. “LGBT activist in Senegal”
* “build a culture of spending cuts” so that“you will get to a point where you can actually deal with these big immovable spending [sic]”
* i.e. cut Medicare / Social Security
Russell Vought Wants to Burn Down U.S. Government
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/russell-vought-trump-project-2025
* aim: not scaling back fed. programs to address deficit
* rather, using deficit to elim. fed. programs
* Dir. U.S. Office of Management & Budget Russell Vought
* spent life trying to destroy ability of gov't to benefit anyone but the rich
* Trump2: can finally do it
* 1998 Wheaton College grad, history/polsci, evangelical Christian school
* Heritage Foundation / Project2025
...
Fight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard [Russell Vought; Wheaton College]
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/a-fist-fight-over-donald-trump-at-the-evangelical-version-of-harvard
nonpaywalled: https://archive.fo/4E2dw
* Wheaton College: controversy around graduate Russell Vought
* Trump1/Trump2 official
* dissent among conservative Christians
Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought has spent his life trying to cripple the ability of the state to benefit anyone but the rich, to the point that it can’t be put back together. With Donald Trump in office, he can finally do it.
Russell Vought Wants to Burn the Government Down
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/russell-vought-trump-project-2025/
12 years of CFPB data at risk of disappearing, former top official warns
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/14/cfpb-data-risk-deletion
5 Calls – Defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
“Despite CFPB’s impact and popularity, the Trump administration and the billionaires that CFPB typically holds accountable are now targeting it. Elon Musk and his DOGE team have demanded access to the CFPB’s data systems, which contain closely-guarded consumer and banking information. CFPB Acting Director (and Project 2025 co-author) Russell Vought has also issued several directives to immediately cease agency operations. Vought also notified the Federal Reserve that he would be stopping the CFPB’s funding stream.”
–Voice, Y. (2025). Defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ⭑ 5 Calls. 5 Calls. https://5calls.org/issue/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-cfpb-vought/
I called all three of my representatives (Representative Max Miller, Senator Bernie Moreno, Senator Jon Husted). All three went to voice mail, where I left a message.
#ElizabethWarren: #codered: it's all about the money: #Trump campaigned to help working people but is doing the EXACT OPPOSITE in office
#drillbabydrill #scam baby #scam
#elonmusk and #project2025 author #RussellVought TRY TO DELETE #CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau
a #agency protecting #citizens from #finance #fraud the #financemafia that has lost it's #moralcompass centuries ago, or never had one to begin with
#banksters will trick you in every possible way to extract the last Dime out of you, the probably not so rich
if this goes through it will make things worse for ordinary people #usa you are #doomed
"Union sues Russell Vought over DOGE access to CFPB and attempts to shutter bureau
One lawsuit urged a judge to block the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing employee information, while the other asked a judge to block Vought’s directives."
#USpol #USpolitics #DOGE #CFPB #TrumpAdministration #RussellVought
Russell Vought is a traitor to the United States.
Russell Vought Orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Stop Work
https://truthout.org/articles/russell-vought-orders-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-to-stop-work/
