Russell Vought, a Project 2025 Architect, Is Ready to Shock Washington if Trump Wins Second Term

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : He moved to Washington to work for Republicans who championed fiscal austerity and small government.
46% : The Senate confirmed him to be OMB's No. 2 by a single vote.
45% : But with Vought at the helm, OMB was at the center of showdowns between Trump and Congress over federal spending and the legal bounds of presidential power.
43% : After lawmakers refused to give Trump more money for his southern U.S. border wall, the budget office siphoned billions of dollars from the Pentagon and Treasury Department budgets to pay for it.
42% : Democrats for months have been using Project 2025 to hammer Trump and other Republicans, arguing to voters that it represents the former president's true -- and extreme -- agenda.
38% : When Trump was elected, Vought became OMB's deputy director.
25% : Trump in recent weeks has sought to distance himself from Project 2025.
22% : Under Vought, OMB also withheld military aid to Ukraine as Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate President Joe Biden and his son.
14% : Trump, who has faced four separate prosecutions, has threatened retribution against Biden and other perceived enemies.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.