US EditionTrump's Budget 'Grim Reaper' Eyeing Big Cuts Amid Shutdown
OMB Director Russell Vought uses shutdown to push Project 2025 plan, aiming to cut federal agencies and place hundreds of thousands of workers on unpaid leave.
- On Wednesday, Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, used the US government shutdown to deliver shock therapy to American bureaucracy on day one.
- Lawmakers failed to pass the annual budget bill, triggering the shutdown, while Vought follows the far‑right Project 2025 blueprint to shrink federal agencies.
- Vought outlined policy steps to shrink federal agencies, including burying foreign aid and ending federal funding for public broadcasting, and said `It's exciting to be involved in this,` recently.
- Federal workers face unpaid leave as the shutdown continues, with hundreds of thousands affected, the White House warning mass firings are `imminent`, and Rosa DeLauro accusing Vought of having `engineered` the shutdown.
- Vought has emerged as a leading power broker in Washington, with disputes with Elon Musk over cost-cutting creating internal friction, recent to the shutdown debate.
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Trump's budget 'grim reaper' eyeing big cuts amid shutdown
He is perhaps the most powerful man in Washington at the moment, after Donald Trump.
The necessary votes on Friday missed the required majority in the Senate. The so-called shutdown had already entered into force on Wednesday, about 750,000 federal officials have now forced leave. Already on Tuesday, the budget negotiations had remained unagreed. Since Wednesday, the authorities at the federal level can no longer carry out their activities to a large extent, they are limited to a few tasks. The Democratic and Republican parties …
The United States will remain in a state of budgetary paralysis at least until next week, following the outbreak of a new vote in Senate, which remains as divided as always among the Republicans...
The Democrats still refuse to vote the budget, asking the Republicans to preserve the health insurance of the most modest. As a result of this budgetary paralysis, federal administrations are closed and several hundred thousand civil servants are technically unemployed.
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