MAGA Republicans in the Senate put Project 2025 chief planner in one of the most powerful positions in federal government

LANSING — In case you missed it, extremist Republicans in the Senate confirmed Russell Vought – the architect of the dangerous, anti-democratic Project 2025, as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before installing Vought to lead the OMB, Trump has already threatened auto jobs, gone back and forth on federal funding freezes, and caused chaos across the country. Now, with Vought, Michiganders can expect more funding freezes, cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and attacks on health care access and affordability.

Vought was the mastermind of Project 2025, and the federal funding freeze is only the most recent attempt to implement this disastrous plan. If Vought gets his way, tens of thousands of Michiganders could be at risk as he threatens countless jobs, critical programs, local and statewide infrastructure, and so much more. 

Throughout his career, Vought has fought to ban abortion with no restrictions, gut Social Security, repeal the Affordable Care Act, and rip away Michiganders’ safety nets. With his nomination and confirmation, Trump has made it clearer than ever that he does not care about nor does he understand Michiganders and their values. 

Read more about this dangerous confirmation below:

AP: Senate confirms Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to lead powerful White House budget office

• The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director on Thursday night, putting an official who has planned the zealous expansion of President Donald Trump’s power into one of the most influential positions in the federal government…
• “Confirming the most radical nominee, who has the most extreme agenda, to the most important agency in Washington,” said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer in a floor speech. “Triple-header of disaster for hardworking Americans.”
• Vought’s return to the White House Office of Management and Budget, which he also helmed during Trump’s first term, puts him in a role that often goes under the public radar yet holds key power in implementing the president’s goals…
• The budget office is also already shaking up federal spending. It had issued a memo to freeze federal spending, sending schools, states and nonprofits into a panic before it was rescinded amid legal challenges…
• Writing in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Vought described the White House budget director’s job “as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President’s mind.”
• The OMB, he declared, “is a President’s air-traffic control system” and should be “involved in all aspects of the White House policy process,” becoming “powerful enough to override implementing agencies’ bureaucracies…”
• During confirmation hearings, Vought stressed that he would follow the law but avoided answering Democrats’ questions on whether he would withhold congressionally allotted aid for Ukraine.
• Democrats charged that Vought’s responses amounted to an acknowledgment that he believes the president is above the law.
• Vought has also unabashedly advanced “ Christian nationalism,” an idea rising in the GOP that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and the government should now be infused with Christianity.