Russell Vought already held the same role in Trump’s first term; The Office of Management and Budget, in English, is a department within the White House
US President-elect Donald Trump (Republican Party) chose Russell Vought as director of the US Office of Planning and Budget, a department within the White House structure and directly linked to the country’s president.
The OMB, as it is known by its initials in English (““), supervises the implementation of the budget policy determined by the president in all bodies of the Executive Branch.
Russell Vought, commonly referred to in the US media simply as Russ Vought, advocates an aggressive policy of cutting federal spending unrelated to military expenditure, except for what he classifies as vested rights – for example, Social Security spending should be preserved (the “Social Security”in the US) and with Medicare (the health care program for those aged 65 and over and younger people with disabilities).
The director appointed to the OMB had already held the same role in Trump’s first term, from 2017 to 2021.
Vought contributed to the controversial Project 2025 (here’s the – PDF – 4 MB, in English), much criticized by the Democratic Party. This is a report sponsored by .
In the chapter in which Vought participated in the final draft, it is written that Project 2025 will help the president to “deconstruct the administrative state”. The future director of OMB maintains that the “The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need to aggressively use the vast powers of the executive branch to devolve power –including the power currently held by the Executive Branch– to the American people”.
For Vought, success in implementing these ideas requires “boldness to bend or break the bureaucracy at presidential will and selflessness to use the bureaucratic machine to send power away from Washington and back to the families, religious communities, local governments and states of America”.
Trump indicates Departments
The president-elect ended all 15 US departments, equivalent to the ministries in Brazil. Trump sought to nominate political supporters and close allies for each position.
The Republican will also nominate the US Trade Representative (Ustr, ), the head of the Small Business Administration (SBA, ) and the director of the Council on Economic Affairs (CEA, ).
