i think it is bad that the president's budget director thinks congress is an advisory body and that the constitution is a set of recommendations www.huffpost.com/entry/russ-v...
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This was known before he was confirmed!
jul 17, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Looks like the Russ Vought Presidency has begun.
jul 17, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 1 • view
“And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?”
jul 17, 2025, 9:59 pm • 5 0 • view
Because of Mike Johnson, we have no representation
jul 17, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Vought never thought Congressional funding anything other than a mere suggestion. Confront the trouble head-on until we overturn all of Stephen Miller's venomous administration policies. He is the power behind the throne harrychancey.substack.com/p/trouble
jul 17, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, neither congress nor the SCOTUS seem to care. Just remember, if the President can close departments without congressional approval, they can also create them.
jul 18, 2025, 5:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Spot on! Oaths can be made meaningless without even crossing your fingers behind your back, too, it seems. 🤷🏼♀️
jul 17, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it's bad that the SCOTUS majority feels the same.
jul 17, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe we should remind them, that the Constitution is the law of the land and has NOT been altered for quite some time. The flick of “his” pen doesn’t change it. Period. If they want to get rid of the Constitution, I suggest they prepare for every single law that was written using the Constitution
jul 18, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
to be null and void. Including theirs. Then what?!
jul 18, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
HELP
jul 18, 2025, 12:27 am • 2 0 • view
jul 17, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
With this Supreme Court I’m not sure he’s wrong, as long as you’re a republican.
jul 17, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 17, 2025, 7:12 pm • 3 1 • view
jul 17, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
he knows it isn't. he just wanted to get there so he could control it.
jul 17, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The real president of the United States.
jul 17, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Vought and Miller are behind EVERYTHING! Scream it from the rooftops.
jul 17, 2025, 9:28 pm • 8 1 • view
but the repubs in congress are 100% permitting and endorsing this
jul 18, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Well said.
jul 17, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Definitely bad for Democracy.
jul 17, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
GenX here and we had Civics class in public school. We were taught about the coequal branches of govt! We need to bring Civics back or more young voters will believe the crap this regime dishes out. Worse, GOP will amend the Constitution to give the Executive complete control #NoKings #Teachers
jul 18, 2025, 10:15 am • 1 0 • view
I asked ChatGPT what happened to Civics class. I knew it had to do with GOP meddling, but wasn’t sure how. Here’s the main reason Civics has died out
jul 18, 2025, 10:17 am • 2 1 • view
Well, these big, devout pious Christians also see the Bible & 10 Commandments as a set of recommendations that they don't have to follow, but everyone else does, so...
jul 17, 2025, 7:12 pm • 5 1 • view
They think God died, not to take away their sins and make them righteous, but in order to make them kings in their own whims!
jul 18, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
So I can ignore the constitution and do what is like to this treasonous piece of crap. Interesting position to take. They think the only parts of the law that should be followed is the ones that protect themselves fuck everyone else. Fuck them
jul 18, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
He looks like an unfinished circumcision
jul 18, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
Scary person.
jul 17, 2025, 11:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Every picture of this dude makes him look like the most evil dead eyed ass mfer to ever live
jul 17, 2025, 5:57 pm • 9 0 • view
Thank you!
jul 17, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
It's crazy that they've just decided to go all in on a recession.
jul 17, 2025, 5:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Das ist ein Kampf, den man nicht allein führen kann. Wie lange wird es dauern, bis wir eine Regierung haben, die wirklich für das Volk spricht?
jul 17, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
That was their plan on Project 2025
jul 17, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
He needs to ☠️
jul 18, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
He should is one of many in the Trump admin who should face investigations and prosecution if we come out the other side of this.
jul 17, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
He is the Father of Project 2025 you expect him to go off brand? Yeah, I think he is a first class jerk who should be hung by his thumbs until he cries for his mommy. The problem wi this admin is they studied our weaknesses & they are gleefully trampling every single one. Traitors!
jul 18, 2025, 1:13 am • 3 0 • view
The current Congressional majority agrees with him.
jul 17, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Even the Dems in Congress aren't as alarmed as they should be. It feels like some are in it only for the insider trading opportunities.
jul 17, 2025, 6:28 pm • 5 0 • view
This comes from the long standing horse-trading mindset. However the GOP is trading in rabid zebras now.
jul 18, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 0 • view
He's an evil little dweeb.
jul 17, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
When this over, anyone connected to the Heritage Foundation will be a marked man.
jul 17, 2025, 5:57 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 17, 2025, 7:43 pm • 1 0 • view
We really do live in a post-Constitution, post-law era. We really have to adjust, and quickly.
jul 18, 2025, 9:05 am • 0 0 • view
It’s also bad that Congress has given everyone that impression. They castrated themselves in public and are just a bunch of cowardly fascist enablers who pretend to have power they willingly surrendered.
jul 17, 2025, 10:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Not great that Congress and the Supreme Court seem to agree, either!
jul 17, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
President Vought.. 🤔 Pass it on and maybe we can oust him like we did Musk. Otherwise PROJECT 2025 coming soon
jul 17, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
It's already here.
jul 18, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
Congressional Democratic leadership should demand changes to the rescissions process in any appropriations package since there’s no reason to believe Congressional Republicans can be trusted to stick to bipartisan spending agreements.
jul 17, 2025, 5:55 pm • 4 0 • view
can't demand anything when the voters didn't turn out and we're the minority in all three branches of government.
jul 17, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s not true- these bills require a 60 vote majority to pass in the Senate. If they want appropriations bills, they need Democratic votes.
jul 17, 2025, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Concentration camps, a massive military, and Bezos' yacht. And social security, to be fair. For the moment anyway.
jul 18, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Vought is overthrowing our government. Anyone who believes as he does is a traitor. He should be our number one target for removal from government, criminal charges, and imprisonment.
jul 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 6 4 • view
They've already unconstitutional misspent the Congressional Budget allocated! Lock 'em up!!
jul 18, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
MAKE NO MISTAKE VOUGHT……IS IN CHARGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE……TRUMP IS A FIGURE HEAD…….
jul 17, 2025, 7:59 pm • 3 0 • view
ABSOLUTELY!
jul 17, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Will any putative replacement figure heads also bow down before Vought? It's Trump being so exceedingly flatterable and stupid (what we used to call retarded before the word was so grossly overused as to lose meaning) which is why it's possible. Would even Vance go along so blindly?
jul 18, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
I know I've said it before but Parliament had Charles II's HEAD for less than this, over 500 years ago!
jul 17, 2025, 5:57 pm • 38 1 • view
...They do like traditionalism. 😈
jul 18, 2025, 1:07 am • 2 0 • view
What's even WORSE is when the Supreme Court allows it to stand 🤷♂️
jul 17, 2025, 5:59 pm • 2 0 • view
There truly is no one lower into Rump's filth (with the possible exception of Stephen Miller) than Vought. He is the living embodiment of the White Christian Nationalist filth. He is racist, anti Semitic and a misogynist all wrapped up in one. For him the actual Constitution is used toilet paper.
jul 17, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
By “decorum” does Vought mean just agreeing to everything he says? And btw, someone should tell him that the “legislative branches understanding of its own authorities and powers” comes from reading the constitution. Maybe he should try it sometime!
jul 17, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Russ Vought is pure evil.
jul 17, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
GOP has ruined checks & balances.
jul 17, 2025, 7:57 pm • 8 0 • view
If they ever lose power....EVERY loophole MUST be closed. And Dems should do it with the same swiftness and unflinching allegiance that the Republicans have demonstrated. The time for Gentlemen's politics has ended..MAGA has revealed that our laws were NOT strong enough to prevent Fascism.
jul 17, 2025, 9:02 pm • 9 0 • view
We the People must stop him!
jul 17, 2025, 8:20 pm • 2 1 • view
He always looks like he’s just bitten the head off of a pigeon
jul 17, 2025, 9:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Ozzy Osbourne is offended
jul 17, 2025, 9:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey if they want to ignore the constitution to break the law we can ignore any pardon to cover for the lawbreaking
jul 17, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
And there's a Hague across the pond.
jul 18, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
Yet he's still only coming in at number 7 on the impeachment list.
jul 17, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Amen to THAT.
jul 17, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the guy who said we're Post-Constitutional. Repeatedly.
jul 17, 2025, 8:48 pm • 33 1 • view
“not cowing to a legislative branch’s understanding of its own authorities and powers.” This line here deserves a spot against a pockmarked wall and a blindfold.
jul 17, 2025, 6:23 pm • 2 1 • view
it's also illiterate. Kowtowing or cowering would make sense here.
jul 18, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
Not as in conforming to the constitution of course. But he in fact is the one presuming to "cow" the Congress. If they ever got spines, they could forthwith impeach him.
jul 18, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
I think we may be fucked, to be blunt.
jul 17, 2025, 10:04 pm • 4 0 • view
#Resist this #Lawlessregime ALL the maga NEED TO BE ACCOUNTABLE #Jailtime maga Congress Crapped on the CONSTITUTION Hold them #accountable Prosecute Miller & ICE by #RICO #Impeach #arrest #prosecute #DemocracyMatters #DefeatRussia #SlavaUkraine @electiontruth.bsky.social #VerifyTheVote
jul 17, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
That should say “pretends to think Congress is an advisory body…” He’s lying, profoundly stupid, or both, IMO
jul 18, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
So far nothing has proven him wrong, sadly.
jul 17, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it’s bad this little twerp never had a real job and now is breaking people’s lives
jul 17, 2025, 9:25 pm • 3 1 • view
Congress Republicans will go along with it because Trump will allocate to their projects they’ve taken bribes and donations on in their states and districts. Kind of like a crime family. 🤔
jul 17, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
He'll promise to, but only actually will if he can once more outshine everyone else.
jul 18, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
I would love for someone in media to do a deep dive into how people like Vought and Stephen Miller could eventually be charged with crimes for what they're doing now.
jul 17, 2025, 8:57 pm • 105 8 • view
Assuming Democrats ever gain power again, they won't charge anyone with anything because they won't want to look "political".
jul 17, 2025, 10:16 pm • 2 0 • view
We failed Reconstruction because of that kind of thing. We failed to protect the promise of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act because of that kind of thing. We cannot fail again.
jul 17, 2025, 10:18 pm • 7 0 • view
We failed more recently when we allowed Nixon to be pardoned, too.
jul 18, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
The Democratic party is mostly composed of bought individuals who will protect the oligarchy rather than the people.
jul 18, 2025, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
Every law podcast should be discussing this.
jul 18, 2025, 1:09 am • 3 0 • view
I hope I live long enough to see them both get charged and convicted
jul 17, 2025, 9:14 pm • 51 1 • view
I'd be happy with either of them fleeing the country.
jul 17, 2025, 10:31 pm • 7 0 • view
There are def other scenarios I’d be good with too
jul 17, 2025, 11:32 pm • 10 0 • view
I’m waiting for the US equivalent to the Nuremberg trials, where the US Nazis face accountability. I’m confident it will happen, but the question is around how much death and destruction will precede it…. 🥺
jul 18, 2025, 12:58 am • 7 1 • view
I would love to have Vought’s head put in a vice.
jul 18, 2025, 2:52 am • 3 0 • view
Vought and Stephen Miller will spend the same amount of time in prison that Robert E. Lee spent in prison after the Civil War. Americans don't punish their elites.
jul 17, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
There's a first time for everything, and we certainly live in unprecedented times.
jul 18, 2025, 8:09 am • 0 0 • view
I hope that's not true this time. We failed to properly punish the Confederates after the Civil War, and we failed to protect the promise of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act after the '60s. We have to get it right this time.
jul 17, 2025, 9:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Even more sad that the majority of Congress thinks so as well.
jul 17, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 0 • view
He has the Supreme Court in his pocket.
jul 17, 2025, 7:30 pm • 6 0 • view
Vought is a buffet of awful thoughts. And it should be closed by the Board of Health.
jul 17, 2025, 5:53 pm • 23 0 • view
/Chef’s Kiss phrasing! No notes!
jul 17, 2025, 9:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Merci!
jul 17, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Why isn’t this guy being impeached weekly? Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
jul 17, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 0 • view
at least we can all take solace in the fact that any potential future democratic president will never use any of these expansive executive powers to do good things
jul 17, 2025, 5:54 pm • 21 0 • view
Under this theory of the executive, the next Democratic president could and should unilaterally abolish ICE without going to Congress
jul 18, 2025, 2:09 pm • 2 0 • view
I thought we had laws and constitutional provisions that were directly on point about this, but I'm not possessed of the scintillating intellect needed to sit on this nation's highest court.
jul 17, 2025, 7:58 pm • 63 1 • view
you'd think even Congressional Republicans might want to impeach the occasional extremely obnoxious Trump official as an example, just out of basic self-respect
jul 17, 2025, 8:03 pm • 41 2 • view
The problem is that those fuckers are chosen based on Trump's own personal approval of them, and he would thus take it as an attack on himself if they were to be impeached.
jul 18, 2025, 8:11 am • 0 0 • view
Vought is a Post-Constitutionalist
jul 17, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
OMG
jul 17, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Article 1 of the Constitution establishes Congress, the Founding Fathers thought the legislative branch should make the laws/control the budget. Article 2 establishes the Executive to be coequal and support the will of the people as expressed by Congress, it does not allow a dictatorship/autocracy!
jul 18, 2025, 3:38 pm • 4 2 • view
Laws are only as good as our mutual agreement to follow them. These people are lawless!
jul 18, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Hungary swamped their judicial system w pro-Orbán sycophants just like the Felon is doing to our judicial system now. This has allowed Orbán to rule as a dictator, just as F47 wants to do here in the US. ecfr.eu/publication/...
jul 19, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
The construct of our Constitution does not allow the wholesale abrogation of our rights as described in it and all the Amendments. Denying due process is a further step toward a dictatorship. There is an approaching point where an autocracy is irreversible.
jul 19, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s got dead eyes
jul 17, 2025, 5:56 pm • 7 0 • view
He’s almost as big a POS as Trump.
jul 17, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
All so billionaires don’t have to pay taxes.
jul 17, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
He doesn’t think the constitution is a set of recs. He thinks it is something worthy of scorn and lighting on fire. He’s said as much and put it all in writing.
jul 17, 2025, 6:37 pm • 2 0 • view
The actual president of the trump admin… and he’s the actual 👹 as well
jul 18, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe the CIA should give us all a hand then. Right now they're on Team Trump and that means they get the wall after the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. They should try to avoid the wall.
jul 17, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
that dude thinks he answers only to god, which is bad enough but what he thinks is god is no more than a matrix of prejudices installed in his head, so really we are all at the mercy of this one guy's really stupid, cruel assumptions about reality
jul 17, 2025, 9:40 pm • 14 1 • view
Would make for an ok miniseries. Reality, not so much
jul 18, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
The thing these Christian nationalist fucks fail to understand is that Jesus Christ was the biggest liberal of all.
jul 18, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
He and Miller should be at the forefront of all discussions around the *goals* of this lawlessness. Trump's a distraction; these guys are the monsters trying to turn our country into a failed, theocratic ethnostate. Follow @jennycohn.bsky.social for good research on this: bsky.app/profile/jenn...
jul 17, 2025, 5:58 pm • 18 9 • view
These are the kind of people unfit to manage even a bathroom key at the gas station. They will abuse every ounce of power they are given. What a f'ing mess.
jul 18, 2025, 3:18 am • 7 0 • view
I’m concerned that no one will stop him, since they sacked everyone with any authority.
jul 17, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone needs to be afraid if this man. HR1 really expanded his power. If we manage to get the House back, the first thing that needs to happen is rolling back HR1. We are in really deep shit, especially with our corrupt SCOTUS.
jul 17, 2025, 7:53 pm • 23 1 • view
Would you expect anything less from a major contributor to Project 2025?
jul 17, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Christian Nationalist Vought seems to think only his way is the right way. I’d like to ask him, ‘Who died and left YOU boss?’ He’s some ‘Christian’: he said he wanted fed employees to experience trauma. How vicious, cruel, & vile of him.
jul 18, 2025, 1:03 am • 1 0 • view
Vought is a very dangerous extremist.
jul 17, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
And he has no clue what classic Christian scripture even tells about God.
jul 18, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
Some knowledgeable cleric should really take Vought to task.
jul 18, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
The president is a camel and congress is an arab in a tent to be pushed out, huh. Surely such a putative cabal cannot last forever.
jul 18, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
Bet this authoritarian fucker would shit his diapers if the next President ignored the inevitable pardons that will be extended to him by Trump for the many laws he will have broken before he leaves this administration.
jul 17, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I concur.
jul 18, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 0 • view
Why do they all LOOK like Nazis?
jul 18, 2025, 8:35 am • 0 0 • view
I keep saying this. Beginning to think the answer might be the obvious one.
jul 18, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Vought truly scares me. Of the consuls Vought and Miller, Vought is the one with staying power.
jul 17, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
jul 17, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, he’s an awful, awful person
jul 18, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
Literally no one ran one “ ran and won on an agenda of a bipartisan appropriations process” because the appropriations process is not a policy, it’s the goddamn Constitution.
jul 17, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
The GOP doesn't horse trade any more, like I've been saying over and over. The GOP trades in rabid zebras.
jul 18, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
The Supreme Court appears to feel the same way about the Constitution.
jul 17, 2025, 10:22 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean… at this moment in time with this Congress and this Supreme Court, he’s not wrong, at least in practice.
jul 17, 2025, 8:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Oh jeez
jul 17, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
THIS GUY is the fkr we need to make go away. He and the other authors of Project 2025 are the real problem. They are the ones pulling the strings and making Creamsicle Caligula look like he's in charge.
jul 17, 2025, 8:29 pm • 38 1 • view
Russell Vought, architect of Project 2025 knows most of what he and DOGE are doing is unconstitutional/illegal and the courts have been largely against their actions. Except the Supreme Court, which swoops in and undermines lower courts. Right-wing SCOTUS are crooks. apnews.com/article/trum...
jul 17, 2025, 10:43 pm • 7 1 • view
This is exactly it. He knows exactly what he's doing. It's been the plan for years, codified into Project 2025, and now they're going for the gusto. All P25 calls for is "trump or a trump-like figure" to keep the based distracted while they completely gut the country.
jul 17, 2025, 9:21 pm • 11 1 • view
Miller and Vought, the evil duo making all the decisions
jul 17, 2025, 9:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Fire this Christian Nationalist terrorist
jul 17, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
"Bad" is putting it mildly. It's fucking insane, but totally what was expected from Vought. Thanks to the GOP senate, who are all in on ridding this country of democracy, we can expect things to get worse. Much worse.
jul 17, 2025, 6:00 pm • 4 0 • view
These are not people who expect to leave office, ever.
jul 17, 2025, 6:11 pm • 4 0 • view
So...is the process that the Congress passes a budget, and then the President comes back and ask them to cut more money...and then they vote to do it? Because that's still Congress. If they wanted to keep the money...they shouldn't have voted to remove it?
jul 17, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Your comment could not be more accurate - or perfectly put.
jul 18, 2025, 3:07 am • 2 0 • view
Action?
jul 18, 2025, 4:00 am • 0 0 • view
Vought and Miller really are cartoon villains...
jul 18, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately so does SCOTUS...
jul 17, 2025, 6:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Congressional republicans have no spine and Trump's administration will continue to treat them as such bulldozing all authority they have and we know the Trump administration has disregarded the Constitution as irrelevant to their agenda.
jul 18, 2025, 10:07 am • 1 0 • view
This guy lives the saddest little life. No wonder his wife left him.
jul 17, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
We have a word for these people. It’s TRAITOR.
jul 17, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
There are many words; you just picked a polite example.
jul 18, 2025, 2:45 am • 1 0 • view
Urinary Theory.
jul 18, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
He has broken so many laws, he needs to be held accountable
jul 18, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view
He's not wrong. A shutdown mandates sending employees home, & gives great discretion over who to send home. It also would've hobbled the courts, where Trump was routinely losing. Schumer got dealt a shit hand. Voters put him in that situation by re-electing Trump, & electing GOP Cong. majorities.
jul 17, 2025, 8:24 pm • 7 0 • view
A shutdown would have done that temporarily. The Continuing Resolution that Chuck Schumer secretly voted for, telling nobody beforehand and blindsiding his entire party, allowed Rs in Congress to gut government for a GENERATION. It was a stunning lapse of leadership, as even Pelosi said at the time.
jul 17, 2025, 9:36 pm • 5 0 • view
When would the shutdown have ended? What date?
jul 18, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
After the 2026 midterms - during which time mandatory programs would remain in effect. A chunk of those mandatory programs have now been defunded and scrapped. A shutdown into 2026 would have been preferable. Why else do you think every Democrat that’s actually on Appropriations was against the CR?
jul 18, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
(Incidentally - 2026 is the far limit but it’s not likely. People on Appropriations - Rosa DeLauro and Patty Murray specifically - were in talks with Republican colleagues for a more limited resolution with some negotiated compromises. Schumer ignored them and torched their efforts. He’s no leader.)
jul 18, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Who decides what's "mandatory"? Do you think denying those programs funding during a shutdown would have, somehow, kept them open? What are you trying to say here? The CR kept funding at the status quo ante level. Anything that got defunded wasn't bc of the CR.
jul 24, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
What you’re saying is that the Dems on Appropriations who were negotiating different deals are idiots who don’t know what they’re doing. And - sure, maybe you’re right. But: why did the literal leader of the Senate Dems flatly refuse to just talk to them? Why breeze past them and vote with the Rs?
jul 24, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
No, you're putting words in my mouth. It's possible for them to have different considerations. That doesn't make one group of them idiots. It's also possible that new info came to light & that plans needed to change. Idk. You'd have to ask him.
jul 25, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re right, sorry; looking back, you were responding to my claim that a shutdown into 2026 would be preferable, not the alternate negotiations. Presently I’m just very worried the NY Dem caucus - Dem leadership in other words - will hand the Republicans a midterm victory the way they did in 2022.
jul 25, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
"A shutdown would give them more people, so we decided to cut out the middle man and just hand it over."
jul 17, 2025, 5:57 pm • 20 0 • view
Because he thinks God is in charge. As though we are all in their book club and believe in imaginary friends.
jul 17, 2025, 5:54 pm • 18 1 • view
Whatever gawd this is, it isn't that of classic Christian scripture.
jul 18, 2025, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
Yet another Christian prick.
jul 17, 2025, 5:58 pm • 10 1 • view
May the vultures descend and pick his bones!
jul 17, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
He thinks everyone who isn’t white/Christian/male is an adversary.
jul 17, 2025, 7:07 pm • 4 0 • view
If they were to get his way and it were just White Christian Males, guys like Vought would quickly start restricting what classifies as white, what sects of Christianity are acceptable, and what is required to be considered a "real man".
jul 18, 2025, 8:00 am • 1 0 • view
Sigh. All I can say at this point is Fuck this guy. It's as ineffective as everything else but at least it makes me momentarily feel good.
jul 17, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Budget Director is his cover name….you mean the lead author, compiler and institutor of the Project 2025? Get the #Vought Out!
jul 17, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Definitely one of the big bads in Trump 2.0
jul 17, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Reminds me of that great line in Ghost Busters by Bill Murray. "Well, they really aren't rules, they are more like 'guidelines'."
jul 18, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
It’s even worse that the Republicans in the House and Senate also view the Constitution as something that can be ignored.
jul 17, 2025, 6:00 pm • 8 2 • view
He's the spider in the web of this administration. People keep saying it's Stephen Miller calling the shots. Nope, it's Russ Vought. He's controlling everything from the OMB. He's a theocratic zealot.
jul 18, 2025, 5:51 am • 8 1 • view
Incompetence is key in this administration.
jul 17, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
IIRC he has a law degree. So no, he doesn't think that. He wants to change it.
jul 17, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
the same russ vought that likes touching little boys?
jul 17, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
He repeatedly states that he thinks the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional (in Project 2025, in his confirmation hearings, to his cat 😂 )
jul 17, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s disgusting. I can’t believe we have a whole party that doesn’t believe in our country or our constitution.
jul 17, 2025, 8:24 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s like everything I know about fiscal law has been upended
jul 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Self-described post-Constitutionalist at work
jul 17, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Project 2025 - and SCOTUS agrees with it
jul 17, 2025, 7:57 pm • 14 2 • view
Russell Vought. Architect of Project 2025.
jul 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 11 4 • view
As long as Congress is allowing it, that's how it will be.
jul 17, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Dems are going to have to force the GOP to nuke the filibuster on this one to keep the government open. There's no way you can vote for an appropriations bills when you know the GOP majority will just rubber-stamp rescission packages.
jul 17, 2025, 7:53 pm • 35 0 • view
If he thinks laws are just suggestions, someone should take him up on it.
jul 17, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Epitome of understatement.
jul 17, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
By Vought's understanding, we don't have to follow the orders put forth by the president. The Constitution dictates Trump is a president. Perhaps it's a recommendation. It appears, "we the people" have more authority than 435 Reps, 100 Senators, a president and VP. The majority rules. That's us.
jul 18, 2025, 4:18 pm • 4 1 • view
Objection, your honor; assumes facts not in evidence. Suppose he knows this is all unconstitutional bullshit. He also knows the defense (impeachment from Congress) can't stop him, and the refs (SCOTUS) won't call the foul. Suppose he thinks "we're gonna run this play until you stop us".
jul 17, 2025, 7:21 pm • 13 1 • view
That’s how it feels…they don’t expect to be stopped regardless of how lawless they are.
jul 17, 2025, 7:47 pm • 9 0 • view
Very bad…
jul 17, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Russ Vought is a leading proponent/author of Project 2025. He said this. "We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be." Just a reminder here of who this is, if needed.
jul 18, 2025, 1:06 am • 21 4 • view
It’s absolutely infuriating.
jul 18, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Mr. Vought is the real villain. He seems to get a vicarious thrill out of the cruelty meted out under Project 2025. Time to identify his kryptonite.
jul 17, 2025, 6:01 pm • 7 1 • view
both vicarious and direct
jul 18, 2025, 1:06 am • 1 0 • view
More than bad - he’s a traitor.
jul 17, 2025, 6:40 pm • 3 0 • view