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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Director of the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget">Office of Management and Budget</a> <br /> Presumptive nominee</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assuming office</b></span><br />TBD</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeding</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shalanda_Young" title="Shalanda Young">Shalanda Young</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">42nd Director of the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget">Office of Management and Budget</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 2, 2019 – January 20, 2021<br />Acting: January 2, 2019 – July 22, 2020<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Derek_Kan" title="Derek Kan">Derek Kan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney" title="Mick Mulvaney">Mick Mulvaney</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shalanda_Young" title="Shalanda Young">Shalanda Young</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Deputy Director of the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget">Office of Management and Budget</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />March 14, 2018 – July 22, 2020</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Deese" title="Brian Deese">Brian Deese</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Derek_Kan" title="Derek Kan">Derek Kan</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Russell Thurlow Vought</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1976-03-26</span>) </span>March 26, 1976<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 48)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wheaton_College_(Illinois)" title="Wheaton College (Illinois)">Wheaton College</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University">George Washington University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">JD</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Russell Thurlow Vought</b> (born March 26, 1976), is an American former government official who was the director of the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget">Office of Management and Budget</a> from July 2020 to January 2021. He was previously deputy director of the OMB for part of 2018, and acting director from 2019 to 2020. </p><p>After <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> was elected president, Biden and his <a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Joe_Biden" title="Presidential transition of Joe Biden">transition team</a> accused Vought of hindering the incoming administration's transition by refusing to allow incoming Biden officials to meet with OMB staff. Vought denied the accusations stating that his team had 45 meetings with the incoming administration prior to Biden’s inauguration. <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, Vought founded the organization the Center for Renewing America, which is focused on combating <a href="/wiki/Critical_race_theory" title="Critical race theory">critical race theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is involved with <a href="/wiki/Project_2025" title="Project 2025">Project 2025</a>, a <a href="/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a>-led plan that seeks to reshape the federal government.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vought was named policy director of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a> platform committee in May 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Vought identifies as a <a href="/wiki/Christian_nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian nationalist">Christian nationalist</a> who seeks to infuse the government and society with elements of Christianity while having "a commitment to an institutional <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States" title="Separation of church and state in the United States">separation between church and state</a>, but not the separation of Christianity from its influence on government and society," according to <i>The Washington Post</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2024, president-elect Trump announced that he would renominate Vought as director of the OMB for his second term as president.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vought was born to Thurlow Bunyea Vought, a <a href="/wiki/US_marine" class="mw-redirect" title="US marine">US marine</a> veteran and Margaret Flowers Vought, an elementary school teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He earned his <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> from <a href="/wiki/Wheaton_College_(Illinois)" title="Wheaton College (Illinois)">Wheaton College</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> from the <a href="/wiki/George_Washington_University_Law_School" title="George Washington University Law School">George Washington University Law School</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vought worked for <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Action" title="Heritage Action">Heritage Action</a>, the lobbying arm of <a href="/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation">The Heritage Foundation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the executive director and budget director of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee">Republican Study Committee</a>, the policy director for the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Conference_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives">Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives</a>, and a legislative assistant for U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/Phil_Gramm" title="Phil Gramm">Phil Gramm</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Office_of_Management_and_Budget_(OMB)"><span id="Office_of_Management_and_Budget_.28OMB.29"></span>Office of Management and Budget (OMB)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Office of Management and Budget (OMB)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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He was confirmed by the Senate on February 28, 2018, in a 50–49 vote. Vice President <a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Mike Pence</a> cast the <a href="/wiki/List_of_tie-breaking_votes_cast_by_the_vice_president_of_the_United_States" title="List of tie-breaking votes cast by the vice president of the United States">tie-breaking vote</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the confirmation hearings for Vought's nomination to the OMB, Senator <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a> questioned Vought about a statement that "<a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslims</a> do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ his Son</a>, and they stand condemned."<sup id="cite_ref-Resurgent2016_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Resurgent2016-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPR2017_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR2017-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic">The Atlantic</a></i> magazine and various Christian organizations denounced Sanders's questioning as a violation of the <a href="/wiki/No_Religious_Test_Clause" title="No Religious Test Clause">No Religious Test Clause</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR2017_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR2017-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, Vought was one of nine government officials who defied a subpoena to testify before Congress in relation to the <a href="/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_scandal" title="Trump–Ukraine scandal">Trump–Ukraine scandal</a> and the administration's decision to freeze military aid to Ukraine. The decision to freeze aid to Ukraine had led Democrats to launch the <a href="/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" title="First impeachment of Donald Trump">first impeachment of Donald Trump</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="OMB_director">OMB director</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: OMB director"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russell_Vought_swearing_in.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Russell_Vought_swearing_in.jpg/220px-Russell_Vought_swearing_in.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Russell_Vought_swearing_in.jpg/330px-Russell_Vought_swearing_in.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Russell_Vought_swearing_in.jpg/440px-Russell_Vought_swearing_in.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a><figcaption>Vought being sworn in as OMB Director in July 2020</figcaption></figure> <p>On January 2, 2019, when OMB Director <a href="/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney" title="Mick Mulvaney">Mick Mulvaney</a> became acting <a href="/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Chief of Staff">White House chief of staff</a>, Vought became the acting OMB director, though Mulvaney continued to hold the director position.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On March 18, 2020, Trump announced his intent to nominate him to be OMB Director.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vought was confirmed by the Senate on July 20, 2020, by a vote of 51–45;<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was sworn in two days later.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2020, Vought broke the OMB's long-standing practice of publishing updated <a href="/wiki/Economic_forecasting" title="Economic forecasting">economic forecasts</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> citing disruption caused by the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">coronavirus pandemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 4, 2020, Vought, at Trump's direction, published an OMB memo instructing federal agencies to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on "<a href="/wiki/Critical_race_theory" title="Critical race theory">critical race theory</a>" or "white privilege" and to identify all available avenues within the law to cancel any such contracts and/or to divert federal dollars away from these training sessions.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2020_election">2020 election</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2020 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> won the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 presidential election</a>, he and his transition team accused Vought of hindering the presidential transition by refusing to allow incoming Biden officials to meet with OMB staff. Typically, career OMB staff would provide an incoming administration with cost estimates and details on existing programs.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Vought defended his actions, stating that OMB had provided funding for the transition and that there had been more than 45 meetings with Biden officials but that "OMB staff are working on this Administration's policies and will do so until this Administration's final day in office."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_and_religious_positions">Political and religious positions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Political and religious positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vought graduated from the <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">evangelical Christian</a> Wheaton College and describes himself as a Christian nationalist. He seeks to infuse the government and society with elements of Christianity, saying he has "a commitment to an institutional <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States" title="Separation of church and state in the United States">separation between church and state</a>, but not the separation of Christianity from its influence on government and society." He advocates for what he calls "radical constitutionalism" to reverse a current "post-Constitutional time" which he asserts has been the result of decades of corruption of laws and institutions by the political left. He characterizes the federal bureaucracy as "<a href="/wiki/Woke" title="Woke">woke</a> and weaponized" and advocates replacing it with "radical constitutionalists" to correct these extremes. Vought recommends a sweeping expansion of presidential power should Donald Trump return to office, to include deploying the military for domestic law enforcement, and reviving the ability of the president to <a href="/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_funds" title="Impoundment of appropriated funds">withhold congressionally-appropriated funds</a>, a practice Congress banned in 1974. Vought proposes to "gut the FBI" and end the tradition of political independence of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Justice_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Justice Department">U.S. Justice Department</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Center_for_Renewing_America">Center for Renewing America</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Center for Renewing America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2021, Vought started an organization called the Center for Renewing America and an affiliated issue advocacy group called American Restoration Action. According to <i><a href="/wiki/Axios_(website)" title="Axios (website)">Axios</a></i>, the groups "will provide the ideological ammunition to sustain Trump's political movement after his departure from the White House."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2021, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> fact-checker rated Vought's statement that only 5 to 7 percent of the Biden administration's <a href="/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_Jobs_Act" title="Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act">$2.3 trillion infrastructure plan</a> would go to "actual roads and bridges and ports and things that you and I would say is real infrastructure" as "Three Pinocchios" out of four.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 8, 2021, Citizens for Renewing America (CRA), the advocacy arm of Center for American Restoration, released a guide to "combatting <a href="/wiki/Critical_race_theory" title="Critical race theory">critical race theory</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vought told <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a> the 33-page handbook is "a crash course in CRT, a 'one-stop shopping' for parents trying to hold their school board members accountable."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 22, 2022, Vought confirmed that federal agents conducted a search of the home of his organization's director of litigation, <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Clark" title="Jeffrey Clark">Jeffrey Clark</a>, a former U.S. Department of Justice official who participated in <a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2023, CRA published a paper arguing for a "dormant NATO, wherein Europe is the primary security provider of the European front."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>CRA is a member of the advisory board of <a href="/wiki/Project_2025" title="Project 2025">Project 2025</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a collection of <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> and <a href="/wiki/Right-wing_politics" title="Right-wing politics">right-wing</a> policy proposals from the <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a> to reshape the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">United States federal government</a> and consolidate <a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)" title="Executive (government)">executive power</a> should the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> nominee win the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election" title="2024 United States presidential election">2024 presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mascaro-20234_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mascaro-20234-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Project_2025">Project 2025</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Project 2025"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Project_2025" title="Project 2025">Project 2025</a></div> <p>Vought plays a major role in <a href="/wiki/Project_2025" title="Project 2025">Project 2025</a>, a collection of <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> and <a href="/wiki/Right-wing_politics" title="Right-wing politics">right-wing</a> policy proposals from the <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a> to reshape the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">United States federal government</a> and consolidate <a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)" title="Executive (government)">executive power</a> should the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> candidate win the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election" title="2024 United States presidential election">2024 presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Haberman,_Savage_&_Swan_2023_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haberman,_Savage_&_Swan_2023-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mascaro-2023_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mascaro-2023-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It proposes <a href="/wiki/Schedule_F_appointment" title="Schedule F appointment">reclassifying</a> tens of thousands of merit-based <a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_civil_service" title="United States federal civil service">federal civil service</a> workers as <a href="/wiki/Political_appointments_in_the_United_States" title="Political appointments in the United States">political appointees</a> in order to replace them with loyalists more willing to enable the next Republican president's policies.<sup id="cite_ref-Mascaro-2023_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mascaro-2023-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It seeks to infuse the government and society with <a href="/wiki/Christian_values" title="Christian values">Christian values</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ward-2024_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ward-2024-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2024, <i><a href="/wiki/ProPublica" title="ProPublica">ProPublica</a></i> reported that Vought's proposals include plans to reshape government by using military force against protesters if deemed necessary, defunding agencies like the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</a> to reduce federal influence, and casting civil servants as obstructive to conservative agendas.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His CRA aims to enact an aggressive policy approach, cutting bureaucracy and focusing on Trump-aligned, conservative governance.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Vought&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span 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