Russ Vought: Trump’s Grim Reaper Of Government Shutdowns
Russ Vought, the man who climbed from Phil Gramm’s mail room in Trumbull, Connecticut, to becoming the Office of Management and Budget’s grim reaper, stars in Trump’s AI apocalypse video set to Blue Öyster Cult's '(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.' His résumé includes freezing $214 million to kickstart Trump's 2019 impeachment, coining 'woke and weaponized' as the GOP’s new catchphrase, and plotting to axe entire agencies like USAID and the CFPB to fund his $9 trillion budget slashing gymnastic. When not ghosting interviews, he writes 350 executive orders so Trump doesn't waste energy arguing if they're legal or moral. Official shadow president material.
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Russ Vought’s career arc: mail room grunt turned Capitol Hill’s budget Grim Reaper weaponizing 'woke' to justify gutting billions, ghosting interviews, and curating Trump’s ultimate shutdown playlist. He’s Washington’s unsubscribe button on civil service.
OMB director Russ Vought is proof that if you feed conservatives enough pork-barrel spending, they’ll eventually bite the muscle off the bone before calling out the hypocrisy.
If government positions had a killstreak, Vought’s OMB role would be the no-scope headshot of federal agencies—reloading with executive orders while everyone else argues about legality.
Source: Propublica | Published: 10/20/2025 | Author: by Andy Kroll
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