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Russell Vought: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected when…”

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

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Russell Vought: The Shadow President

Published | Video Starts at 01:03

I had heard the name Russ Vogt, but he was always just slightly outside the field of vision. And then I got my hands on this video. We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected when they wake up in the morning. We want them to not want to go to work. He talks about this goal of wanting to traumatize federal workers. You want to put them in trauma. (01:03–01:09)

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Asserts intention to create a hostile work environment for bureaucrats.

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