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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

How Russell Vought's 'radical constitutionalism' could spark a constitutional crisis

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Daily, Npr, Talk Show

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Russell Vought, head of Trump's Office of Budget and Management, believes the president has the power to completely dismantle any aspect of the federal government he chooses. Bipartisan leaders say Trump and Vought are trying to provoke a constitutional crisis.

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0:00.0

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This is on point.

0:52.6

I'm Megyn Chakrabardi.

0:54.4

President Donald Trump often deploys the term radical to smear people he does not like.

1:00.0

He called former Vice President Kamala Harris a radical Marxist.

1:04.9

The media is, quote, the radical left media.

1:07.7

He regularly labels Democrats as the radical left and opponents in general as, quote,

1:13.4

radical left thugs or radical left lunatics. There are radicals, too, within his own current

1:21.1

administration, self-professed radicals. The president has to move executively as fast and as aggressively as possible with a radical

1:32.5

constitutional perspective to be able to dismantle that

1:37.2

bureaucracy in their power centers. This is Russell Vote,

1:41.1

head of the president's office of management and budget.

1:44.8

He's speaking here with Tucker Carlson right after Trump was elected in November.

1:49.3

And as you heard, vote openly embraces and endorses what he himself calls a radical constitutional perspective.

1:58.2

And I think there are a couple of ways to do it.

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