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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles (R), speaks during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he returned to the White House last month. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

WH chief blasts Vanity Fair interview

Garrett Owen
Former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought testifies before a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his second nomination to be OMB director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025. (JEMAL COUNTESS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s shadow president

Andy Kroll - ProPublica
The 2025 Government Shutdown enters Day 11 on Saturday amid announcements for permanent firings of over 4,000 furloughed workers. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

The federal workforce purge begins

CK Smith
President Donald Trump returns to the White House from Scotland on July 29, 2025. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump punishes states that backed Harris

Garrett Owen
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump sets up likely government shutdown

Blaise Malley
Donald Trump, with Sean Duffy (L), speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 24, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

One fringe legal theory threatens it all

John A. Dearborn, Desmond King, Stephen Skowronek
Former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought testifies before a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his second nomination to be OMB director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025. (JEMAL COUNTESS/AFP via Getty Images)

Project 2025 head confirmed as OMB chief

Griffin Eckstein
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General Pam Bondi meets with incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) in his office at the Hart Senate Office Building on December 02, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Pam Bondi's DOJ is out for revenge

Heather Digby Parton
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U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) speaks at a press conference outside of USAID headquarters on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Musk buyout scheme is a "scam," Dems say

Russell Payne
Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump's underlings undermine the mission

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testifies during the Senate Banking Committee nomination hearing in the Dirksen Senate Building on January 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

OMB rescinds memo, causes more confusion

Nicholas Liu
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"War on woke" is a war on all America

Amanda Marcotte
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought arrives for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's OMB sparks "five-alarm fire"

Nicholas Liu
President Donald Trump appears at a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump orders right out of Project 2025

Griffin Eckstein
Russ Vought, former OMB director, conducts news conference outside of the U.S. Capitol with House Republicans to oppose vaccine mandates on Friday, November 5, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump to hire Project 2025 architect

Nicholas Liu
Russell Vought, former acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies before Congress on Wednesday, February 12, 2020. (om Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Key MAGA leader plots new Trump agenda

Molly Redden, Andy Kroll, Nick Surgey - ProPublica
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump tries to flip it all on Biden

Heather Digby Parton
Kevin McCarthy with Russ Vought looming in the darkness (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Russ Vought: GOP's far-right mastermind

Aneela Mirchandani
Russ Vought, former OMB director, conducts news conference outside of the U.S. Capitol with House Republicans on Friday, November 5, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Anti-Medicaid Trumpkin advising GOP

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cuomo: Trump defunding NYC is "illegal"

Igor Derysh
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In 2020, then-Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought started the machine that printed copies of US President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the U.S. Government for the 2021 Fiscal Year at the Government Publishing Office ahead of its release (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Trump budget dir. still plans to cut CDC

Matthew Rozsa
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