Senate Republicans Back Trump’s Project 2025 “Chief Architect” to Gut Americans’ Health Care and Social Security and Medicare Arrow

In response to Senate Republicans trying to push through Russ Vought's nomination to be OMB Director, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:

"On Donald Trump's first day in office, his MAGA allies are already rushing to enact his extreme, out-of-touch agenda by pushing Project 2025's 'chief architect' Russ Vought through his first committee vote. Vought is a dangerous extremist whose wildly unpopular Project 2025 agenda would gut Social Security and Medicare, rip away access to health care, and threaten Americans' basic rights."

Today, Senate Republicans voted to advance Project 2025's "chief architect" Russ Vought's nomination to be the Office of Management and Budget Director.

Chad Pergram, Fox News: "Russ Vought to be OMB director - vote was 8-7. That was party line."

Vought's extreme and out-of-touch record includes his career-long plans to gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, repeal the Affordable Care Act, and strip away other earned benefits.

Washington Post: "Vought has sold many Republicans on the untested premise that the GOP can push to obliterate almost all other major forms of federal spending, especially programs that benefit lower-income Americans …

"Vought's budget proposal calls for cutting $9 trillion over the next decade from thousands of domestic programs - slashing funding for government agencies, student loans, and anti-poverty programs such as housing, health care and food assistance …

"The plan includes $2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, the health program for the poor; more than $600 billion in cuts to the Affordable Care Act; more than $400 billion in cuts to food stamps; hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to educational subsidies; and a halving of the State Department and the Labor Department, among other federal agencies."

"Proposed reforms would also end coverage of disabilities unrelated to military duties and training. As seen with recent burn pit legislation, many conditions are considered qualified disabilities as presumptively connected despite overwhelming evidence that many conditions have no scientifically established link to the presumptive cause."

Russ Vought: "Proposed reforms would also end coverage of disabilities unrelated to military duties and training. …

"The Budget would reduce these disability payments by 30 percent"

Washington Post: "Each of [Trump's] White House budget proposals included cuts to Social Security and Medicare programs."

Vought also has a long extreme anti-choice record, including calls for a total "abolition" of abortion access - even in cases of rape, incest, or to save a woman's life - and his fight to ban medication abortion through his organization Center for Renewing America.

Vought: "Well, I don't actually believe in those exceptions.

"I want to get to abolition, … I want to get as far as we possibly can."

New York Times: "Russell T. Vought, a former senior Trump administration official who ran the Office of Management and Budget, is celebrated by the anti-abortion movement for successfully blocking funds for Planned Parenthood during the Trump administration. He now runs a think tank with close ties to the former president that has backed arguments in a Supreme Court case attempting to undo the 2000 approval of mifepristone, a widely used abortion medication."

Center For Renewing America: "Primer: Thwarting the FDA's Destructive Abortion-By-Mail Agenda"

"In the wake of Dobbs and the District Court's stay on mifepristone, state legislators have the opportunity to continue solidifying sanctuaries for life. State lawmakers should ban the dispensation of mifepristone (and any other chemical abortifacients) altogether-especially in states that have 6-week or full bans.

"The FDA's rogue actions must be held to account through focused legislative action. Indeed, the 2021 decision to dispense the abortion drug through the mail is not only a deliberate violation of longstanding statutes, but also a direct threat to sovereign state laws that prohibit the barbaric practice of abortion."

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