Yassamin Ansari: “Russ Vaught, who runs the Office of Management and Budget…”

“They, they fired thousands of employees at the Social Security Administration the same way they are doing that across agencies. What this President wants to do and what Russ Vaught, who runs the Office of Management and Budget, he's one of the architects of Project 2025. wants to do, they don't believe in the federal government. They want mass layoffs and they want to make government so ineffective by firing everybody so that people stop believing that government can work.” (12:39–12:46)

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