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Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) | RNDF Fireside Chat

Published December 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 22:30

I don't think they understand the way the White House works in the sense that this is. There's a little too much news about a move to omb. We are working seamlessly and integrated with NSC and the Pentagon on this. And you know, at best a White House works when all of these offices are working together. We are in fact at the White House. (22:30–22:36)

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Asserts that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is working seamlessly with the National Security Council (NSC) and the Pentagon.

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“We literally just recapitalized the entire Coast Guard fleet.”
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“It netted out $500 billion in deficit reduction.”
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“One of them is Davies is putting a billion dollars into Texas into this new manufacturing facility.”
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“The President's very concerned about making sure that we can fill our stores with enough munitions.”
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“We want more Virginia submarines and ships built.”
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“We have a massive backlog. We have many programs that are overrun.”
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“Frigate, for example, you know, was only 15% deviation away from the model that we had picked. Come back into office and it's now an 85%…”
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“We want a big maritime supremacy effort to be able to ensure that we keep sea lanes open.”
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“We hit a trillion dollar level with a combination of the base through discretionary and $150 billion over two years.”
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“Our defense increases have been held hostage by the non-defense needs.”
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“We're $38 trillion in debt.”
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“We wanted a strategy that was a Republican only strategy in terms of votes to secure our defense needs.”
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“The Senate is right now working on a number of these appropriations bills before January 30, four or five of them, one of them being…”
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“We need new yards. We need a lot of capital investment.”
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“The resources will be there [for defense capabilities].”
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“We have statutory tools that a president who wants to tame a bureaucracy can use, has used.”
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“We have an affordable, fiscally responsible way to both deal with our debt and to have a strong economy.”
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“The one big, beautiful bill did many things, including the tax cuts, but it had historic levels of mandatory savings.”
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“We had a 9% inflation for the first time in 40 years, the president has gotten inflation under control.”
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“Gas prices are down and we are hard at work trying to make housing cheaper.”
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“The president has said he is always willing to tackle the types of issues in health care that have led to exploding cost from Obamacare.”
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“We want to make sure that money is going directly to consumers to have consumer driven health care that lowers the cost.”
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