elected president Donald Trump co-author Russell Vought named Friday Project 2025 He served as the Republican National Committee’s platform policy director and was his choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
In asdefinition Announcing his pick, Trump called Vought, who previously served in his first term, “an aggressive cost-cutter and adjuster across all agencies who will help us implement our America First Agenda.”
“Russ knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State and end the Armed Government, and he will help us bring Self-Government back to the people,” Trump said. “We will restore financial sanity to our nation and take the American people to new levels of Prosperity and Creativity.”
Wood responded to Trump’s candidacy Send to X on Friday night, saying, “Thank you @realDonaldTrump! There is unfinished business on behalf of the American people and it is the honor of a lifetime to call again.”
In chapter Claiming to be the author of the conservative plan for the 2025 project, the OMB director said that “to address the fiscal irresponsibility of the federal government, the President should present a fiscal goal early in the budgeting process.”
“Although some mistakenly regard it as mere paperwork, the President’s budget is actually a powerful mechanism for making and implementing public policy in federal agencies,” he wrote.
While Trump and many of his allies have distanced themselves from Project 2025, an initiative that includes policy proposals led by the right-leaning think tank Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups for a Republican administration, many people have stuck with the agenda. elected to positions in the incoming Trump administration. Some of those named included Tom Homan as border czar, Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and John Ratcliffe as CIA director.
If he is confirmed by the Senate, Vought will oversee the budget and the implementation of Trump’s policies across executive departments and agencies.
Vaught previously served as director of the Office of Management in Trump’s first term. He assumed the position after serving as deputy director and acting director of that office before his Senate confirmation in July 2020.
Trump also announced other key Cabinet picks on Thursday.
He named former NFL player and Texas state representative Scott Turner as his nominee for housing and urban development secretary and Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemerR-Ore., acting secretary of labor. Trump also put forward his candidacy surgeon Marty Makary said he would as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration choose former Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., as a candidate for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among several other options.
Trump also announced that former aide Sebastian Gorka will serve as deputy assistant and director general for counterterrorism. Gorka previously served as Trump’s national security adviser in 2017 less than a year. After that, he faced criticism wears the medal Vitezi Rand, a member of a Hungarian group with alleged ties to the Nazis, attended Trump’s inaugural ball in 2017.