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(((Howard Forman)))
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But what Russ Vought is very good at is sabotage. Hes sabotaging national security, the pandemic response and the economic recovery all to make things more difficult for the incoming Biden administration.
Scary.
Opinion | Meet the Trump saboteur in charge of undermining Biden and America
Russell Vought is sabotaging national security, the pandemic response and the economic recovery all to make things more difficult for the incoming Biden administration.
washingtonpost.com
6:24 AM · Jan 1, 2021
(((Howard Forman)))
@thehowie
But what Russ Vought is very good at is sabotage. Hes sabotaging national security, the pandemic response and the economic recovery all to make things more difficult for the incoming Biden administration.
Scary.
Opinion | Meet the Trump saboteur in charge of undermining Biden and America
Russell Vought is sabotaging national security, the pandemic response and the economic recovery all to make things more difficult for the incoming Biden administration.
washingtonpost.com
6:24 AM · Jan 1, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/31/russell-vought-trump-saboteur-undermine-biden-america/
If, in the new year, pandemic vaccines arent available as promised, Americans cant return to work because economic relief isnt delivered or an adversary successfully attacks the United States because national security agencies couldnt pay for new defenses, a hefty share of the blame should be placed on a man youve probably never heard of: One Russell Thurlow Vought.
As President Trumps budget director, he conspicuously failed in his stated goal of controlling the debt. Despite his efforts, the debt increased by $6 trillion on his two-year watch as director of the Office of Management and Budget, the biggest jump in history.
He also has been disastrous in his fiscal forecasts. On Feb. 10, he predicted 2.8 percent growth for the year, saying, our view is that, at this point, coronavirus is not something that is going to have ripple effects. A few weeks later, the economy collapsed.
But what Russ Vought is very good at is sabotage. Hes sabotaging national security, the pandemic response and the economic recovery all to make things more difficult for the incoming Biden administration. That hes also sabotaging the country seems not to matter to Vought, who has spent nearly two decades as a right-wing bomb thrower.
He has blocked civil servants at OMB from cooperating with the Biden transition, denying President-elect Joe Biden the policy analysis and budget-preparation assistance given to previous presidents-elect, including Barack Obama and Trump himself. Transition figures warn that it will likely delay and hamper economic and pandemic relief and national security preparation (the Pentagon is the other key agency resisting transition cooperation with the incoming administration).
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Meet the Trump saboteur in charge of undermining Biden -- and America (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2021
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Andy823
(11,495 posts)1. Investigate him
and find out if anything he has done is illegal, if so let the justice system do it's job!
dweller
(23,647 posts)2. Another
Fucker ...
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