Does President-elect Donald Trump‘s budget honcho, Russ Vought, believe there is only one branch of government? Or four? Or does he argue that the executive branch is superior to legislative and judicial?
No, he doesn’t. But you would think he believes one or all of those things if you learned about him from the New York Times.
On Wednesday, the outlet published a story on Vought, who ran the Office of Management and Budget in Trump’s first term and has been renominated to run it again.
The OMB is part of the White House. That means it is within the Executive Office of the President along with other offices, such as the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Security Council.
The outlet’s piece reports that Vought’s mission is to give the White House more control over the bureaucracy and to gain some more control over the purse strings.
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