Russ Vought‚ who managed federal spending during Trumps first term will return to lead the Office of Management and Budget; his selection shows clear signs of next years policy direction
The appointment connects directly to a big-scale conservative blueprint called Project 2025 (which Vought helped create) that aims to re-shape government work. The project includes several non-standard ideas: expanding white house control increasing political staff numbers and changing how the justice department works
Here are some key figures already picked for the new team:
- Brendan Carr - heading communications
- Tom Homan - border operations
- John Ratcliffe - intelligence work
- Pete Hoekstra - canada relations
The plans reach goes beyond standard government changes — its pushing for new rules about mail-order medicine state borders and education policy. A really important part focuses on changing worker rules that could let the president fire many government staff
After months of lies to the American people‚ Donald Trump is taking off the mask
Tech leader Elon Musk and ex-candidate Vivek Ramaswamy got tapped to run a new cost-cutting department‚ working with Vought on spending cuts. The Trump team says its focused on its own plans - not outside groups ideas‚ but keeps picking people who worked on the project
Even though Trump publicly stayed away from Project 2025 during his campaign (and polls showed many people dont like it)‚ his recent picks show clear connections to the plans ideas and authors. The projects influence keeps growing as more of its writers join key positions