Russell Vought and Elon Musk are making congressional funding decisions irrelevant by their own lawless actions, like mass firings and impoundment.

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But she's got to at least get The Deep, let me kill the fish guy at least ... I just hope that it's creative and it's fun." Vought, for its part, is acting like everything is normal.

The Trump administration is launching a more systematic effort that could lay off as many as 700,000 government employees.

In President Donald Trump’s first term, Russell Vought was a largely behind-the-scenes player who eventually became director of the influential but underappreciated Office of Management and Budget.