The national debt exploded on Russ Vought’s watch. Now he wants Republican lawmakers to play hardball.
Most awkwardly for his current position: Vought oversaw enormous increases in the national debt as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget. The debt ballooned by staggering sums on Vought’s watch: $1 trillion in his first year, and a whopping $4 trillion in his second, as Congress agreed on a bipartisan basis to spend trillions of dollars in response to theAdvertisement
“Russ is an expert. He knows the details; he knows the budget backwards and forwards,” said one former GOP From his earliest days in politics, Vought’s intense views and adversarial relationships with colleagues unnerved some conservatives. Though a former member of the Freedom Caucus who was known as a bomb-thrower, Mulvaney was seen by OMB staff as more engaging and agreeable than Vought, who quickly developed a reputation as fierce and antagonistic. Even as deputy director, however, Vought became OMB’s voice in crafting the administration’s budget proposals, and by July 2020, Vought was OMB director.
All four of Trump’s budgets proposed unprecedented cuts to domestic spending for which Congress never had much appetite.
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