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Nominee challenged on Project 2025, ‘weaponized’ bureaucracy and Schedule F implications
Summary
Senators pressed Russell Vought about his association with Project 2025 and the Center for Renewing America, his comments about inducing ‘trauma’ in federal employees, and whether Schedule F would strip civil‑service due process or impair national security functions.
Senators from both parties questioned Russell Vought about his past advocacy with the Center for Renewing America and Project 2025, and about language he used describing the federal workforce as, in his words at prior events, candidates to be “traumatically affected.”
Senator Mark Warner said Vought’s past comments — including that the administration wanted federal employees to be “traumatically affected” — raised concerns about how the nominee would manage agencies critical to national security and public safety. Warner called for a…
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