The Bureaucrat Who Could Make Trump’s Authoritarian Dreams Real

Photo caption: Russell Vought, then acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), speaks during a television interview at the White House in 2019. Photo credit: Alex Edelman / Zuma. Article by Isabela Dias. Mother Jones – November – December 2024 Issue.

In the waning days of the Trump presidency, Russell Vought, the outgoing director of the Office of Management and Budget, had a request. After years in Washington, DC, soaking in the minutiae of policy, Vought had come to both know and loathe the bureaucracy. A rare voice in an administration committed to “draining the swamp” who […]

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