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Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the National #Treasury Employees v. #RussVought (acting director of CFPB) ruled that the attempt to dismantle #CFPB is likely unlawful, & the recent claims by the #Trump admin that the agency was still performing its statutorily mandated duties was "nothing more than window dressing."
As such she ordered a preliminary injunction.
#law #ConsumerProtection #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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…The case began in 2020 when the #CFPB accused Townstone of #redlining & breaking fair-lending laws by discouraging residents living in majority-#Black neighborhoods from applying for its #housing #loans. It homed in on comments made during the company’s radio show & podcast, “The Townstone Financial Show,” saying they were intended to rebuff Black borrowers or those seeking to buy homes in certain neighborhoods.
In an especially strange twist, the case — against #TownstoneFinancial, a small Chicago-based lender — was brought during #Trump’s first term by Kathleen Kraninger, the director he appointed to run the #CFPB.
#RussVought, who became the agency’s acting director last month, said it had “used radical ‘#equity’ arguments to tag Townstone as #racist with zero evidence, & spent years persecuting & extorting them.”
"Basically, if there wasn’t a “deep state” before, they’ve certainly done their damnedest to create one.”
Terrorizing our fellow Americans | Fred Wellman
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#TrumpDeepState #RussVought #EndTrumpNow #EndDOGENow #USPol
Terrorizing our fellow Americans
Russ Vought promised to traumatize Federal workers, and it's happeningFPWellman (On Democracy with FPWellman Substack Community)
In an opinion handed down on Thurs morning, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the Federal Dist Court for RI said the suit came down to a case of executive #overreach, in which top admin ofcls had required agencies to withhold funds authorized by #Congress.
A memo from the WH #OMB [#RussVought of #Project2025] had demanded a pause on billions in grants until the admin could determine that the funding complied w/ #Trump’s priorities….
A federal judge on Thurs extended an order barring the #Trump admin from withholding billions in congressionally approved funds to 22 states & DC.
The ruling, which builds on the judge’s temporary order instructing the govt to keep the money flowing, sets up a broader clash between Democratic states’ AGs over the Trump’s efforts to overhaul spending to align w/his agenda.
#Congress #OMB #RussVought #Project2025
#law #DOGE #Musk #TrumpPurge #TrumpCoup #coup
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Funding Freeze, Saying White House Put Itself ‘Above Congress’
The judge had ruled that the administration was not complying with his previous order requiring the government to keep disbursing money to states.Zach Montague (The New York Times)
CFPB to Employees: When We Said Stop Work, We Didn't Mean Stop Work!
#DismantlingAgencies #FailingPlans #ConsumerAdvocacy #RussVought #IllegalPlans
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CFPB to Employees: When We Said Stop Work, We Didn’t Mean Stop Work!
The illegal plan to dismantle the consumer agency is failing. So Russ Vought and his charges are engaging in some CYA.David Dayen (The American Prospect)
"Allies of Musk also began arriving at tech hubs in the federal government before Inauguration Day — the first hint of the scope of his incursion."
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#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Crisis #ConstitutionalCrisis #InsiderThreat #Tech #Technology #Government #Trump #GOP #RussVought #StephenMiller #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #US #USA
"Musk & his advisers... did not want to create a #commission, as past #budget hawks had done. They wanted direct, insider access to #government systems. They realized they could use the #digital office, whose staff had been focused on helping agencies fix #technology problems, to quickly penetrate the federal govt — and then decipher how to break it apart."
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#ElonMusk #Musk #StephenMiller #RussVought #Coup #Tech #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.Jonathan Swan (The New York Times)
The Millers had worked w/ #Musk in between #Trump’s terms, helping to guide his political spending behind the scenes. After the election, they became even more essential in helping him decode & navigate Trump’s world.
Musk also absorbed as much as he could about the budget process & the bureaucracy that he intended to dismantle from #RussVought, who served as dir of the powerful #OMB in Trump’s first term.
#coup #law #regulation #Technocracy #kleptocracy #USpol
The operation would take over the #USDS, which had been housed within the #OMB [#RussVought], & would become a stand-alone entity in the executive office of the president. #Musk would NOT be named the #DOGE administrator, but rather an *adviser* to #Trump….
An advantage of this complicated structure was #secrecy. For all his talk about “#transparency,” Musk was obsessed w/confidentiality & fearful of #leaks.
#coup #law #regulation #Technocracy #kleptocracy #USpol
…The NYT has learned new details about how the operation came together after the election, mapped out in a series of closely held meetings in Palm Beach, FL, & through early intelligence-gathering efforts in Washington.
Seasoned *conservative* operatives like #StephenMiller & #RussVought helped educate #Musk about the workings of the bureaucracy. Soon, he stumbled on an opening. It was a little-known unit with reach across the government: the US Digital Service [#USDS]…
On the 1st day of his 2nd term, #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder that tasked the #EPA w/reviewing the “legality & continuing applicability of” the #endangerment finding. The order gave #LeeZeldin 30 days to submit recommendations to #RussVought, the head of #OMB [& #Project2025 architect]. …Mandy Gunasekara, who served as EPA chief of staff at the end of Trump’s 1st term & wrote the EPA chpt in the conservative #Project2025, has been advising the admin on repealing the finding….
new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (#CFPB) making an official public statement in favor of #SoLoFunds, a peer to peer payday lender that operated w/out a license and connected desperately poor people to loans charging 2,000% interest.
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#RussVought #CFPB #OMB #MAGA #DOGE #uspol #paydaylenders #PaydayLending #usury #fintech
One of the best descriptions of what’s going on that I’ve read so far.
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#RussVought wrote a #manifesto that explains the #Trump-#Musk power grab | Vox
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The obscure manifesto that explains the Trump-Musk power grab
Trump’s OMB director wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come.Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
The #ExecutiveOrder applies only partly to one particularly powerful agency, the #FederalReserve, covering issues related to its supervision & #regulation of #WallStreet, but exempting its decisions related to monetary policy, like raising & lowering interest rates.
…The order declared that the White House’s director of the #OMB, #RussVought [#Project2025], can withhold funding for any projects or initiatives that conflict w/ #Trump’s policies & priorities.
Specifically, it said, #RussVought will have the power to “adjust such agencies’ apportionments by activity, function, project, or object, as necessary & appropriate, to advance the president’s policies & priorities,” including by prohibiting them from expending funds on matters #Trump does not like.
#law #USpol #TrumpCoup #authoritarianism #autocracy #SeparationOfPowers #democracy
Trump Wants Project 2025 Architect to Have Starring Role in Cabinet
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* Christian nationalist Russ Vought
* deeply involved in creation of right-wing playbook Project 2025
* strongly considered for upcoming Trump2 Cabinet position
#USpol #RussellVought #RussVought #Project2025
#Christofascism #ChristianNationalism #theocracy
#Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP #fascism #racism #CRT #BLM
Trump, Who Claimed He Knew Nothing About Project 2025, Reverses Course
Donald Trump wants a Project 2025 architect to play a starring role in his Cabinet.The New Republic
[thread] Russ Vought
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* Dir. Office of Management & Budget 2020-2021
* founded Center for Renewing America
* anti-critical race theory
* involved w. Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, seeking to reshape fed. gov.
* Christian nationalist; seeks to infuse U.S. gov./society w. Christianity
#USpol #RussellVought #RussVought #Project2025
#Christofascism #ChristianNationalism #theocracy
#Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP #fascism #racism #CRT #BLM
“#RIF the Phase 1 offices in their entirety,” one bullet point reads, referring to offices dedicated to #DEI. That process is already underway: The [#RussVought of #Project2025] #OPM last month directed agencies to submit written plans for firing all DEI office workers & encouraged agencies to begin issuing #termination notices immediately.
#law #USpol #CivilRights #TrumpCoup #Autocracy #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy
#Trump, #Musk, & #RussVought, the newly appointed dir of OMB & architect of the #HeritageFoundation’s #Project2025—the original #RegimeChange blueprint—are now using IT operations, captured payments systems, secretive engineers, a blizzard of #ExecutiveOrders, & viral #propaganda to achieve the same thing.
This appears to be #DOGE’s true purpose.
Fox Host Asks Trump OMB Chief If He's Looking Forward To 'One Of These Great Pounding Trump Showers'
#AllTimer #RussVought #Greeting #DonaldTrump #Humor
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Larry Kudlow Asks Russ Vought About 'Pounding Trump Showers'
Larry Kudlow dropped an all-timer of a greeting when he asked Trump OMB Director Russ Vought if he's looking forward to a "great pounding Trump shower."Tommy Christopher (Mediaite)
During #Trump's first term, the scope of the agency's work was significantly narrowed. But now, under acting Dir #RussVought [#Project2025], nearly all of the bureau's work has been ordered to be stopped, w/Vought saying he will not be asking for ANY more funding for the agency.
"CFPB RIP," #ElonMusk wrote on X last week with an emoji of a gravestone.
#law #CFPB #regulation #finance #tech #apps #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #security #privacy #fraud #oversight #corruption #kleptocracy #broligarchy
Congress urged to move faster to provide billions for key Trump policy
#SenateBudgetCommittee #BorderSecurity #LindseyGraham #RussVought #BudgetResolution
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Congress urged to move faster to provide billions for key Trump policy
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Budget Committee chairman warned Tuesday that immigration and border security funding is running low, and urged House Republicans to go along with a plan that would provide hundreds of billions in spending before Congress…Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom (Alternet.org)
Angelo Carusone on Deadline: White House: We've only seen the beginning of what Russ Vought and Project 2025 want to do to the country
#RussVought #Project2025 #BeginningOfChanges #NicolleWallace #USPolicy
The freeze adds more economic uncertainty for #farmers already struggling after several consecutive years of incomes dragged down by low crop prices.
…The #Trump #OMB [#RussVought #Project2025] has asked #USDA for information on 409 programs, according to an OMB document reviewed by Reuters, including the names of political appointees that oversee each program & any funding obligations the programs have through March 15.
#economy #food #agriculture #USpol #TrumpCoup
Trump's "Puppet Master," Russ Vought, Confirmed to Lead OMB
#RussVought #TrumpAdministration #OfficeOfManagementAndBudget #OMBConfirmation #FederalBudget
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Trump's "puppet master," Russ Vought, confirmed to lead OMB
"He will be the quarterback of White House policy."Mother Jones
#Project2025 #coup success
#Senate confirms #RussellVought to lead #OMB
The Senate on Thurs confirmed #RussVought as the next director of the powerful WH budget office, installing a *#conservative* *fiscal* hawk [really just a #white #cis #hetero #Christian #nationalist] has promised to pursue sweeping spending cuts & empower #Trump to conform the budget to his political views.
#Republicans marshaled a 53-47 [ummm] vote in support of #Vought….
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #RussVought #RussellVought #MAGA
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37 ways Project 2025 has shown up in Trump’s executive orders
A side-by-side review by POLITICO found dozens of cases where the president’s early executive actions have aligned with portions of the 922-page policy document.www.politico.com
"I just came off the floor after speaking for an hour. I refuse to let Republicans confirm Russ Vought the easy way, so we're are holding the floor through the night for 30 straight hours.Vought has shown he'll ignore the law & constitution. I'll be voting NO tomorrow."
-Sen Patty Murray
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#Democrats #Resist #Resistance #Trump #Republicans #RussVought #Politics #US #USPol #US #USA
Senator Patty Murray (@senpattymurray) on Threads
I just came off the floor after speaking for an hour. I refuse to let Republicans confirm Russ Vought the easy way, so we're are holding the floor through the night for 30 straight hours. Vought has shown he'll ignore the law & constitution.Threads
"Senate Dems are holding the floor for 30 hours for debate to speak out against the confirmation of Russell Vought — the architect of Project 2025 — for Director of the Office of Management and Budget.I’m scheduled to speak at midnight so make some coffee and tune into C-Span!"
-Sen Amy Klobuchar
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#Democrats #Resist #Coup #Trump #Republicans #Project2025 #RussVought #RusselVought #Hearing #Politics #US #USA
▶ Medicaid Under Attack: Wyden on Funding Freeze Fiasco & Project 2025's Russ Vought, Trump's OMB Pick
#DemocracyNow #MedicareAnd #RussVought #SenatorRonWyden #Project2025
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'Hostage note': Trump's funding freeze will deliver 'greatest harm' says OMB veteran
#IllegalFundingHold #OMBMemo #HealthcareAffected #RussVought #GreatestHarmToVulnerable
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'Hostage note': Trump’s funding freeze will deliver 'greatest harm' says OMB veteran
President Donald Trump’s massive freeze on what appears to be trillions of dollars of federal aid is being challenged as possibly illegal, as state and federal lawmakers, governors, and the heads of nonprofit agencies that rely on federal funds, are …David Badash (Alternet.org)
The independent structure of those agencies has been a central part of how #Congress has set up the administrative state since the New Deal. But #RussVought sees the modern structure of government as a theft of the president’s *rightful* #powers.
“What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of #independence & seize them,” #Vought said at the time, adding of the #FederalReserve: “It’s very hard to square the #Fed’s independence with the Constitution.”
#RussVought’s role in #Project2025 was to oversee executive orders & other #unilateral actions that #Trump could take during his first 6 months in office, w/the goal of tearing down & rebuilding #ExecutiveBranch institutions in a way that would enhance presidential #power.
In an interview with The NYT in 2023, Vought laid out an agenda of eliminating the #independence of certain #regulatory agencies that operate outside the direct control of the WH, such as the #FCC & the #SEC.
The choice of #RussVought would bring in a strongly ideological figure who played a pivotal role in #Trump’s first term, when he also served as budget chief. Among other things, Vought helped come up w/the idea of having Trump use emergency power to circumvent #Congress’s decision about how much to spend on a #border wall.
Vought was a leading figure in #Project2025, the effort by *#conservative* organizations to build a governing blueprint for Trump.
#Trump picked key figure in #Project2025, #RussVought, to lead the #OMB, elevating a longtime ally who has spent the last 4 yrs making plans to rework the American government to enhance presidential #power.
Vought, would oversee the WH #budget & help determine whether #FederalAgencies *comport* w/the president’s policies. The role requires Senate confirmation unless Trump is able to make recess appointments.