Thune Warns Democrats Over Russ Vought

Trump looks to use government shutdown to cut programs and jobs in ‘Democrat Agencies’

By LISA MASCARO, JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, saying he planned to meet with budget director Russ Vought to talk through “temporary or permanent” spending cuts that could set up a lose-lose dynamic for Democratic lawmakers. Trump announced the meeting on social media Thursday morning,…

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FIRST THING THURSDAY AM ... TRUMP ANNOUNCES HE'S MEETING WITH RUSS VOUGHT TO START FIRING PEOPLE ... DONALD TRUMP: I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not…

Thune Warns Democrats Over Russ Vought

“Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t endorsing the slash-and-burn campaign White House budget director Russ Vought has planned for the federal government during the pending shutdown,” Politico reports. “But he says Democrats have no one to blame for it but themselves.” Said Thune: “This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought… we don’t control what he’s going to do.”

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I can’t go into too much detail without revealing my sources. But I wanted to share that I’ve heard from sources in multiple departments and agencies that the groundwork you’d expect to see in advance of wholesale firings — as promised by Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought — simply are not happening: lists for who gets fired and who doesn’t, the reduction in force paperwork, etc. Those things aren’t happening. At least not in t…

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Russ is a bad seed. What am I supposed to do, shoot him? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

I talked to them a million times, they don’t listen: Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t endorsing the slash-and-burn campaign White House budget director Russ Vought has planned for the federal government during the pending shutdown. But he says Democrats have no one to blame for it but themselves. “This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,” the Senate majority leader said in an exclusive intervi…