All along the plan was Project 2025,” says Chris Hayes on Senate Republicans confirming Russell Vought, a key author of Project 2025, to lead the Trump administration’s powerful budget office.

Vought's return to the White House Office of Management and Budget, which he also helmed during Trump's first term, would put him in a role that often goes under the public radar

Politics Senate confirms Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to lead powerful White House budget office Vought was confirmed on a party-line vote of 53-47. Russell Vought, Presi

Senator Chuck Schumer called Vought the ‘most radical nominee, who has the most extreme agenda’ and now heads the ‘most important agency in Washington’

Russell Vought sees the Office of Management and Budget as a “nerve center” that can be used to curtail DEI programs and purge the federal workforce of Trump’s perceived enemies.