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Russell Vought: “This $70 billion in non-defense cuts is a part of that…”

Featuring: Russell Vought, Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget | National

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Treasurer, can you highlight some of OMB's efforts to identify and combat rampant waste and fraud in the government programs? Sure. I mean This $70 billion in non-defense cuts is a part of that process of identifying education programs that we don't think actually educate kids. of programs that we think put forward a harmful ideology to the country. Those are the types of things that we think are wasteful. (03:44–03:59)

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Asserts that $70 billion in non-defense cuts include education programs deemed ineffective.

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