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Back in 2023, the man who had once run the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB,

during Donald Trump's first term, was giving a speech

at an invitation-only event put on by his think tank, the Center for Renewing America.

Russell Vote, a Christian nationalist and budget policy wonk, spoke about the lessons he had taken

away from his experience in office. And in a video uncovered by

the investigative journalist organization ProPublica, he explained what would be necessary to

reimagine the federal government bureaucracy should Trump be reelected. Again, this is from

23. We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.

We want, when they woke up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.

Because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.

We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry

because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.

Vote is now on track for a second tour as Donald Trump's director of the OMB. But before

he even assumes office, the blueprint that he outlined back in 2023 is unfolding now with the help of a so-called special government employee.

Elon Musk remains on his mission to revamp the federal workforce.

He's also so in confusion and chaos within government ranks.

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