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'Really Quite An Oddball': Sheldon Whitehouse Dunks On Trump's OMB Director Russell Vought
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4/22/2025
During a town hall on Monday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) spoke about Trump's OMB Director, Russell Vought.
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And they have got some very creepy people behind this mischief.
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The guy who is sort of stage managing this from the Office of Management and Budget
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is a guy named Russell Vogt, who is really quite an oddball
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and very disdainful of all government.
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And he's been on the right-wing billionaires' payroll essentially his entire life
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coming up with the craziest ideas for turning the world into the one that right-wing billionaires want.
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He's the guy running OMB.
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You want to know who his counsel is over at OMB?
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He's a character named Mark Paoletta.
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If you remember seeing the painting of Leonard Leo, the court fixer, with Clarence Thomas,
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and the billionaire Harlan Crowe who's been funding Clarence Thomas' lifestyle,
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his mother's house, dependents' education, his family's exotic trips,
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the other person in that painting with the billionaire, the justice, and the court backer is Mark Paoletta.
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So you've got some really, really sneaky, dangerous people behind these decisions.
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And that is why provoking an interruption of benefits at Social Security
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so they can bring in the private equity people.
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And the tech grows to say, we can run it better.
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There will be no interruption of benefits if we do it.
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One thing on Medicaid, if you look at the map of the counties in the country that are most dependent on federal benefits,
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and you lay that over the map of the Republican voting counties,
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this is not going to be, even with Russell Vote and Donald Trump and all the billionaires,
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this is not going to be an easy vote for Republicans to have to take home to their districts
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when their own districts are disproportionately dependent on Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
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