Public services threatened as architect of Project 2025 confirmed to key post

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https://www.afscme.org/blog/public-services-threatened-as-architect-of-project-2025-confirmed-to-key-post

By Pete Levine · Friday, February 07, 2025

Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, has won Senate confirmation to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget, signaling that public services are in jeopardy. His confirmation comes as billionaires and anti-worker extremists have begun an unprecedented assault on workers.

AFSCME President Lee Saunders said, “Russell Vought’s singular goal for decades has been to gut public services and hand over as much power and influence to billionaires as possible. His confirmation signals that everything from Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security to Head Start and veterans' health care is on the chopping block.”

Vought’s agenda is clear. He wants to withhold funding of essential public services, replace federal workers with political loyalists and erase workers’ freedoms. He has even talked of wanting to traumatize public service workers — our nurses, school bus drivers, corrections officers and others — and have them viewed as villains.

“Vought will now control the purse strings to put politics between our communities and the essential services we all need,” Saunders said. “And he’s already signaled he will disregard Congress and the Constitution to achieve this vision. Let there be no illusions — Vought is an existential threat to the people’s government.”

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