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On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
since yesterday afternoon, Democrats have held this floor to ring the alarm bells across the United States of America about the nomination of Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Russ Vought may not be as famous as Donald Trump's other nominees, but as you have heard from so many Democrats, ``Radical Russ'' is Donald Trump's most dangerous nominee. He is the mastermind behind Project 2025. In following that script, he proudly breaks the law, he proudly violates the Constitution, and he proudly seeks to gut programs for ordinary American families to deliver trillions in tax giveaways to the richest Americans. Russell Vought's dead-of-night directives to freeze government payments have already sown massive damage across our Nation--programs for healthcare and housing and education and children. Then, just today, I learned that the Bureau of Land Management is ordering small businesses to cease and desist all work for forest management--that of thinning the forests and doing prescribed burns to prevent massive forest fires from burning down our cities. That is literally Trump and Russ Vought playing with fire. The American people are angry about this sweeping authoritarian coup. They are calling our offices. Two thousand Oregonians called my office yesterday. Thousands of people showed up to my nine townhalls over the last two weekends.…
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
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govinfo.gov
Feb 5, 2025

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