President-Elect Donald Trump nominated Russ Vought on Friday to return as director to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Trump’s selection of Vought will likely ensure his campaign promise will be carried out of purging the federal bureaucracy — or “deep state,” as he calls it — of rogue and corrupt actors.
Vought sat for an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this week and explained how the administrative state can be curtailed through the levers of OMB. “Bureaucracies hate the American people,” Vought told Carlson. “The American people currently are not in control of their government, and the President hasn’t been either.”