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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will play a key role in strangling the power of unelected bureaucrats in the second Trump administration, believes Russ Vought, former department director and president of Center for Renewing America.
“Bureaucracies hate the American people,” Vought told Tucker Carlson. “The American people currently are not in control of their government, and the President hasn’t been either.”
Vought’s ideas could be a fixture of the second Trump administration. Reports indicate President-elect Donald Trump is considering Vought to lead the department again.
The OMB is a very significant department that oversees the implementation of a president’s vision across the Executive Branch, and through it, Trump has the power to axe agency funding that will likely try to operate outside the scope of his agenda.
Trump vowed during the campaign to rid the federal bureaucracy — or “deep state,” as he calls it — of rogue and corrupt actors. Many of the tools to do so run through OMB, Vought explained in an interview with Carlson:
OMB is the nerve center of the federal government, particularly the executive branch … Office of Management and Budget has the ability to turn off the spending that’s going on at the agencies. It has all the regulations coming through it to assess whether it’s good or bad or too expensive or could be done a different way, or what does the President think, and then all of the government execution … So it really, presidents use OMB to tame the bureaucracy.
…The President has to move executively as fast and as aggressively as possible with a radical constitutional perspective to be able to dismantle the bureaucracy in their power centers. And I think there are a couple of ways to do it.
Number one is going after the whole notion of independence. There are no independent agencies. Congress may have viewed them as such, SEC or the FCC, CFPB, the whole alphabet suit, but that isn’t that is not something that the Constitution understands. […]
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