RUSSELL VOUGHT: We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. We want " when they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are so " 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.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, explain what the OMB does, the Office of Management and Budget, why it's such a powerful position.

MOLLY REDDEN: It's such a powerful position because, first of all, it oversees all of the regulations that the administration puts out. So, Congress can write a check for " you heard him in those videos talk about defunding the EPA and making sure regulators don't have what they need. So, even if Congress appropriates money for clean water regulation, you know, scrubbing pollution from the atmosphere, Vought can " Vought and his agency can oversee how rules get technically written so that that money can dry up.

This is what you voted for an unchecked executive branch terrorizing government employees