Disclosure
Vought: The Trump administration will use impoundment to withhold appropriated funds
“We've got a lot of executive tools up to using impoundment that we intend to use And are looking for opportunities to do so.”
Disclosure
Vought classifies 90% of OMB staff as at-will employees to enact reforms
“The reform to make it so that if you are a career individual that's engaged on policy matters, and I, I've classified my organization OMB as 90% of the people at OMB are engaged in policy matters on behalf of the president, being in a situation where you are e…”
Opinion
Vought Calls State Medicaid Provider Taxes a Money Laundering Scam
“There's substantial reforms to Medicaid that protect the program, but also allow us to get illegals off the program to deal with what is essentially a money laundering scam where a state will have Almost a fake tax on a healthcare provider, use that to cause t…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vought: The President Has Apportionment Power to Turn Off Unnecessary Funding
“Ultimately with the ability to use the power, the apportionment power that the president has to turn off funding if it's not necessary until he can make sure that bureaucracy isn't wasting money on things that are inconsistent with his administration.”
Insight
Vought: Challenging Impoundment Act Is Necessary to Cut Off Federal Funding
“If you don't come out there and say, look, the fundamental way that the town has functioned on the basis of 50 years under the Impoundment Control Act, if you don't kind of go out there and describe that, and name it, and say, you know, we have fundamental pro…”
Assertion Supported
Vought: Trump Administration Is Using Reductions in Force Extensively
“The extent to which we've never really used reductions in force in the first term. That's something that is certainly something we've used extensively.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2030
Vought: The budget bill will drive 3% GDP growth and $4T output
“We believe it's in the neighborhood of four trillion dollars, three percent economic growth compared to 1.8% that CBO assumes.”
Opinion
Vought: Trump Budget Cuts and Tariffs Cover One-Third of Deficit Gap
“The president just secured one and a half trillion dollars consistent with the fiscal framework in our first six months that I would, I think tariffs included is, is, is heading us dealing with a third. Of what's necessary to get to a balanced budget.”
Assertion Supported
Vought: Rescissions bill cuts $1B from CPB and $8B in foreign aid
“The first bill was the bare minimum of, and the easiest hurdle for them. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a billion dollars. Dealing with their next two cycles of advanced funding, and then eight billion dollars in foreign aid, all of which was connected t…”
Disclosure
Vought: White House will make DOGE spending cuts permanent unilaterally if necessary
“We're gonna make these cuts permanent. We've got a lot of different options. We would love to have Congress as a willing partner. But they need to prove that they can pass these bills because otherwise we're gonna have to look at other options.”
Assertion Supported
Vought: CFPB targeted Townstone Financial with redlining claims without evidence
“They went after a company called Townstone who had a podcast and was complaining as a private citizen about the extent of which there was crime in Chicago. You know, I think if you did a poll of anyone in the country in a diner, they would say, yeah, I think t…”
Opinion
Vought: Progressives sought to divorce federal bureaucracy from presidential oversight
“This is one of those paramount progressive movements was to create this expert class that was divorced from the actual management of the president of the United States. From his oversight”
Assertion Partly supported
Vought: Reconciliation bill's $1.5T mandatory cuts nearly double 1997 record
“There's a one in .5 trillion dollar in savings to mandatory reforms, which is some of the big structural drivers that we have. If you looked at the biggest mandatory reform in history, it would have been 1997 and eight hundred billion dollars adjusted For infl…”
Opinion
Vought claims the Congressional Budget Office ruins policy debates with rigid assumptions
“I think there's probably a new enthusiasm to deal with CBO. They're constantly ruining the debates that we have based on the information that they're putting out and not really assessing the world as it is, as opposed to kind of how the straight jackets that, …”
Disclosure
Vought: CFPB is dismissing enforcement cases and withdrawing regulatory guidances
“So we've been doing a lot of dismissing cases. We pulled down all the regulations that or the guidances that were kind of being used as The enforcement mechanism. And then now we're going through the process of deregulating where we have to actually send out a…”
Insight
Russ Vought: Aggressive Executive Action Forces Congress to Follow Administration's Terms
“If you just put in motion executively what you can, ah, consistent with the law, it forces Congress to respond in a positive direction. There, it limits their ability to say no. In fact, they have to catch up with you, and you've set the terms with the debate.”
Russ Vaught