Trump picks key figure in Project 2025 for powerful budget role

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Vought kept in close touch with Trump for the next three years, according to people with knowledge of the relationship.
69% : Trump blessed the idea and later helped raise money for the group, hosting Vought at Mar-a-Lago -- Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Florida -- and praising his efforts to a large gathering of wealthy donors.
60% : Vought's role in Project 2025 was to oversee executive orders and other unilateral actions that Trump could take during his first six months in office, with the goal of tearing down and rebuilding executive branch institutions in a way that would enhance presidential power.
47% : Now that Trump has won the election, Vought has come back into public view, including sitting for a lengthy interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, which he posted on social media Monday.
47% : In the interview, Vought laid out ideas for how Trump "has to move executively as fast and as aggressively as possible, with a radical constitutional perspective, to be able to dismantle" the power of federal agencies and civil servants.
45% : Vought was a leading figure in Project 2025, the effort by conservative organizations to build a governing blueprint for Trump should he take office once again.
39% : In the final week of Trump's presidency, in mid-January 2021, Vought told Trump about his plan to set up the Center for Renewing America to keep his policies alive.
37% : In one case, Vought's group published a legal framework for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy federal troops on domestic soil.
36% : The role requires Senate confirmation unless Trump is able to make recess appointments.
36% : Among other things, he helped come up with the idea of having Trump use emergency power to circumvent Congress' decision about how much to spend on a border wall.
35% : Trump tried to distance himself from the effort during his campaign, but he has put forward people with ties to the project for his administration since the election.

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