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Watch: Protesters interrupt OMB Director Russ Vought’s opening statement at House hearing – CBS News Watch CBS News Protesters interrupted OMB Director Russ Vought’s opening statement at a House Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday. Vought appeared before the House panel to discuss President Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2027. Source link

Sophie Lawton at MMFA:

The proposed 2027 budget released by the Office of Management and Budget is filled with ideas that appear to be copied and pasted from Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership. Russ Vought, the head of the OMB, was an architect of the extreme right-wing media initiative and its signature publication before being hired by President Donald Trump. The 2027 budget proposes defunding a variety of “woke" policies (with the word “woke” appearing more than 30 times in the document), including, for example, Department of Commerce programs “focused on woke and meaningless initiatives" like prioritizing support and funding for LGBTQ businesses.

Similarly, in Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ forward to the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, he calls for the next conservative administration to “make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors" by “deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (‘SOGI’), diversity, equity, and inclusion (‘DEI’), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists."

Other proposals from the 2027 budget go even further than what was suggested by Project 2025. For instance, Project 2025 concedes that Congress is unlikely to defund the Minority Business Development Agency and therefore “a conservative Administration is best served by approaching MBDA as a tool to be leveraged in the fight to deliver economic opportunity to all Americans." The 2027 budget suggests defunding the agency entirely.

Project 2025 calls for a conservative administration to restructure the Teen Pregnancy Prevention initiative so it does not serve as an “advocacy tool” to “promote sex, promote prostitution, or provide a funnel effect for abortion facilities." Trump's 2027 budget proposes completely eliminating the program.

The 2027 budget document also contains some language more forceful than what was seen in Mandate for Leadership, repeatedly referring to the Green New Deal as the “Green New Scam,” for example, while Mandate uses the somewhat softer “green subsidies” to describe environmental and related policies it calls to dismantle.

After spending months disavowing Project 2025 on the campaign trail in 2024, Trump hired dozens of people connected to the effort at the start of his second term and has continued to enact policies lifted directly from the Mandate for Leadership. Some of the more notable Project 2025 suggestions that have been implemented include dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development and defunding programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. According to the open source Project 2025 Tracker, the Trump administration has implemented around 50% of Project 2025's policy proposals so far.