ProPublica exposed Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and Project 2025 architect, as operating as a ‘shadow president’ or ‘second commander-in-chief’ orchestrating the systematic dismantling of federal agencies and expansion of presidential power. Vought led Project …
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By August 7, 2025, President Trump had signed 202 executive orders, with independent analyses confirming that approximately two-thirds mirror the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposals - an agenda Trump previously disavowed during his campaign. Key domains include civil rights …
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President Trump issued an executive order creating Schedule F, a radical reclassification mechanism designed to strip civil service protections from approximately 50,000 federal workers in ‘policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating’ positions. The order would effectively …
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