The man with a plan to upend government, and what it entails

Russell Vought is a revered figure on the right with his pledges to upend the “deep state” and dismantle “woke and weaponized government” Vought was confirmed as OMB director on a party-line vote in 2020 .

Democrats on the Senate Budget and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panels will be poring over Vought ’s writings and speeches since leaving the Trump administration to found a new pro-Trump think tank.

The Center for Renewing America’s Project 2025 budget blueprint is a rejection of traditional GOP orthodoxy calling for higher defense budgets and overhauling Social Security and Medicare .

Nearly every domestic agency would see double-digit appropriations cuts in the first year of implementation.

The nondefense discretionary portion of the budget would be cut by about $2.5 trillion over a decade , or 28 percent from baseline spending.

The blueprint calls for slashing Medicaid , both traditional and the expanded subsidies provided under the 2010 health care law, by almost $2.2 trillion .

It would cut another $642 billion through repeal of the 2010 law’s exchange subsidies, which were expanded under the Biden administration.

The plan would keep in place the current $ 10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions.