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you'll recognize this, russ vought. play tape on this one. >> presidents from thomas jefferson on have exercised some kind of authority and trump can't be forced by congress to spend money unconstitutionally. can't say here's $100 million and only hire white people. he can't be forced by congress to use money to interfere with national security and foreign policy goals of the presidency. and i think that the president has the right to also pause spending as he has and say i can find ways for them and more dollars and efficient. if congress built a bridge for a billion and trump said i can build for going for the president and going for them on the discretion. larry: building for them and going for 500 million. going for 500 men. ability to impound funds and result we're able to do a far better job. going for them and agencies have the normal. going for the impowerment control act does coming on and saying you're trying to save money in the end of the fourth quarter and smartly that's something going with the violation w

you will recognize this russ vought. play some tape on this. >> president from thomas jefferson on, have exercised some kind of impoundment authority, trump can't be forced by congress to spend money unconstitutionaly. you can't say here is 100 million dollar, you can only hire qu white people. i think that president has a right to pause spending as he has, said i can find ways to spend tax payer dollars more efficiently, if congress built a bridge for a billion and trump is for 500 million, i think that constitution gives president that discretion. larry:s revos reruss vought, if congress says build a bridge for a billion and trump said i can do it cheaper, why not impound the up used 500 million. >> look, president has recognize that 200 years of presidents have had the ability to i impound funds do a better job of controlling cost, agencies have formal power crease -- normal bureaucracy approach to use it or lose it, if try safe money in end of 4th quarter, and do things smarssmartly that violates the act, we see at e

here are just a few of the things that russ vought has called for -- russ vought has called on congress to outlaw medication abortion nationwide, restricting women's reproductive rights even in states that protect abortion. russ vought has encouraged discrimination against transgender people in the workplace and in health care. in his first stint as omb director, russ vought decried the use of federal funding for diversity and equity training in a letter to federal agencies. the project 2025 play block calls for eliminating almost every civil rights office in the federal government. and russ vought has said he intends to put federal workers, quote, in trauma and destroy the merit-based system for civil servants so that he can fill the government with right wing extremists. i'm going to pause here for a minute to see if senator gillibrand wants to speak. mrs. gillibrand: thank you, senator warren, for your unbelievable tenacity and clear-eyed and thoughtful remarks. i yield the balance of my postcloture debate time on the vote nomination to senator schumer. the presiding officer: duly no

russ is still a friend of mine. and i hate the crimes, but i don't hate russ.eal, and his uniform was burned. the former commanding officer of the air force, angus watt, says williams deserved it. we take our honor very seriously in the military, and he betrayed that honor so profoundly that i just don't see much room for most military people to forgive that betrayal. keith morrison: as for anne marsan-cook, she believes she was given a second chance. she and howard married in 2013. but she can't leave her past behind. i haven't written. i haven't painted. i haven't done anything. i'm just living day by day. and it will come back. i'm sure of that. no worries. but now i feel that if i-- if it comes out, it might just be a scream, a scream that goes on forever. keith morrison: in the ottawa suburb of orleans, there's a new wariness, or so it seems. so many break-ins here. for brenda constantine and brian rogers, what matters now is telling their story so that no teenage girl is targeted, as theirs was. no child should have to go through that. hearing the story i

yesterday, to oppose russ vought. why?ause russ vought is the coauthor of president trump's 2025 manifesto, and the chief architect of trump's strategy to seize the power of the legislative branch. how are they doing that? on january 27, the omb issued a memo to effectively suspend congress' power of the purse by announcing a pause on all federal grants and loans. he shut down funding for practically every state and local program that receives money from the federal government. now, like all of my colleagues, i had heard from nevadans worried about accessing medicaid or their v.a. benefits or funding for law enforcement or housing and energy payments that keep the lights on for low-income nevadans. i've heard concerns about child care initiatives like head start that have no longer any funding, and programs to support seniors, like meals on wheels are concerned. i have heard from tribes in nevada. i just got out of my office meeting with one of our tribes, who are still having trouble accessing housing funds and similar fu

russ vought for the office of management and budget on the russ vought vote. do you believe any of your republican colleagues will have the courage to oppose any of these confirmations? and which one worries you the most? >> so you mentioned that two there with rfk jr. i do think he poses a great risk to the public health of people throughout the country because of his conspiracy theories on vaccines. i'm proud to represent maryland. we're home to the nih and the fda. these are people who work every day to try to develop treatments and cures to diseases that impact the country, including vaccines. and rfk s spread of misinformation will put american lives at risk. i'm glad you mentioned russ vote because he's gotten less attention. probably because republicans will vote for him. as you said, we boycotted the voting session in committee because the chairman of the committee, senator lindsey graham, refused to conduct the hearing and the voting session in public. we think it's important that people know who russ vote is and what he will do. so of all these nomin

let's deal with the russ vote of it all.ning from from democratic senator tim kaine. >> now, i pay. >> attention to the way people say. >> things, because there's. >> a million ways. >> you. >> can make. >> a point. >> and the way. >> you choose to. >> make a point tells you something about the person. you don't want federal air. >> traffic controllers going to the airport, traumatized. >> do you? mr. >> vote no, senator. >> you don't want. >> the people inspecting our food. >> our medicine. >> our infant. >> formula as federal. you don't want them to. >> go to work traumatized. >> do you know. >> senator. >> you don't. >> want the people. >> interdicting drugs at the border. you don't want them. >> going to work. >> traumatized. >> do you? >> no, sir. and you. >> don't want. >> people who are. >> working for you. >> at the omb. >> who many. >> people would think. >> well, they're in the white house. >> they must be. you don't want them traumatized? >> no. senator. >> thank you. >> for. >> expanding on that. >> yeah. >> i me

we just had idaho congressman russ fulcher on. did you listen in? caller: top of the morning to you, john. this is a remark for russ fulcher and the subject [indiscernible] i used to pick up his milk. 10,000 gallons every 24 hours. 27 degree milk. this is a subject about 10 capacity size. gas stations have three 20,000 gallon tanks in the ground. 87 octane is in demand. if you look at plus we have anywhere between 150 a day, and your premium you are only averaging between 50 and 100 gallons a day. president trump says he needs 12 months to cut carbon fuel? have them do an inventory nationwide. all we have to do is cut plus out of the program because we don't need it and president trump would cut the cost of fuel in 48 hours. host: i'm trying to keep up with you there, rick. why don't we need it? caller: we don't need it, because you have three grades of octane. we are at a higher altitude, you go down to texas they are at 87 for premium and 83 for regular unleaded. if you understand the air mass density of an engine basically we are at a higher alti

and i'm hoping that congress will back up russ vought on this. >> i love this move. used to serve on a financial services committee. he is so excited about this. it is a terrorist organization in a way, financial. what they do they prevent banks from engaging, in what they are supposed to do assessing their own risk, protecting customers, they get in the way of banks ability to do that. all we have are big giants, they hurt the banking industry. they have taken diversity away. for clients at every level. i love this idea, someone who is been a lawyer to banks and worked with banks, love community banks. i love that they do this are useless organization, it is also d let's close it and walk everyone out the door. larry: and arthur, if you keep on this path this is deregulation at the finest. you know this is a make believe, organization. this served no purpose. stopping business loans, personal loans, payday loans, credit card loans, putting their noses in to everything as though federal reserve and controller of currency and fdic, this is another one. you know. this

so, look, back to russ vought for a moment. he's part of a crew, right, and it's homan, it's brandon carr who is now trying to intimidate -- at the fcc who is you a trying to intimidate the media. the project 2025 crew is -- i mean, they are really rolling. they are populating the cabinet of the president. and the president was clever enough during the campaign to disassociate himself with project 2025, but that did not last long because about two-thirds of his senior staffers are, like, closely affiliated with project 2025. this isn't some ancillary thing. they're, like, in it. let me read to you something from my local fox affiliate. hawaii's rural health care at snake federal funding freezes. the freezing of federal funding has thrown many nonprofit organizations in hawaii, especially those providing health care services, into a state of uncertainty. amongst these organizations, the maui aids organization which serves some of the most vulnerable populations on maui, linda popowo is deeply concerned about the potential conseq

so meet russ triano who lives in the small town of corning. up bowling as a hobby a little over 50 years ago. despite having to slow down with a battle with cancer he just bowled his first ever perfect game. >> for me, shoot tag 300 was fine. but the fact i was 87 and able to do that. i have been bowling well. i was real sick there about eight years ago with cancer. and we beat that into the ground pretty hard. but it's been tough coming back. >> russ is looking good though. he is a self-taught bowler. congratulations. thanks for watching. the news continues at 8:00 on pix plus announcer: it's time to play "family feud"! give it up for steve harvey! [cheering and applause] steve: [indistinct]

russ vote. and you've said it exactly right, russ.s is a job. you shouldn't know the name of the person running the omb, but he is the he is actually one of the authors of project 2025. and he has a very specific view of omb. he basically thinks that omb director should be the king's hand and represent the president in all things throughout the government, legislative, executive branch, wherever he was the architect of the federal funding freeze that happened last week, where medicaid portals were shut down, where head start was shut down, where construction projects were shut down. and he's got a lot more ideas for the american people, and none of them are good. he also basically views laws as optional. we pass an appropriations bill, and then he thinks that he gets to just say, well, donald trump doesn't like it, so we're going to shutter that agency. look, if you don't like a particular part of the federal government, there is a way to change the federal government. and it's through your elected representatives in congress. and i d

russ vought is your guy. a second chance -- he has a second chance now to turn social security and medicare into bargaining chips in a political game that none of us have agreed to play. keeping seniors up at night worrying whether a social security check might not make it to them after all. he has a second chance to rewrite the rules in a way that ensures the wealthy and well-connected are taken care of while everyone else is left behind. we should be clear about what this nomination represents. russ vought wants to oversee the erosion of the very services that millions of americans rely on every day, every single day. to lead the charge to remake the united states into a can country where people -- into a country where people are left to fend for themselves, where the government doesn't work because they don't mean it to, they don't want it to, they don't want a government of the people or a government by the people or a government for the people. they want a government of them. they want a government by th

so there's two problems with russ vote.t what he proposes to do and what they have already done is illegal. and the other is that what they are doing is already harming people across the country. >> the first part of that, the illegal part of that, i think is sticking in everybody's craw because it used to be when credible people who know the law pointed out that something is illegal. it was part of a sentence in which you were saying, you can't do that because it's illegal. what we're seeing over and over again in this second trump term, particularly from ideas that sprung from the brain of people like russ fort, is that they are doing things that seem plainly illegal, and yet they are still doing them. i think the frustration and the exasperation of the american people on that front is that i think we all thought that the law would stop them, sort of enjoin them from doing things that are against the law. how should we understand that, that tension, that that lack of what's allowed them to do this stuff that feels so lawl

but look, russ vought wrote a chapter, project 2025. this was always the plan.to do. we should not be surprised that they're doing it. >> you know, republicans, you know, during the campaign trail, rick, and we're old enough to remember this. they ran against project 2025. trump said he didn't know anything about it. the republicans said they'd never heard about it. they played dumb about it. and yet here we are. trump and musk doing exactly what the blueprint called for in going after these agencies. and you now have the coauthor of this far right playbook in charge of this consumer protection bureau. >> i mean, i can't tell you the number of. >> times during the campaign. >> i had reporters say, how dare you say he's going to do project 2025? he just he said he would never do that. oh, okay. if by now, eight years, practically a decade into this game, you don't understand that donald trump will lie about anything at any time. you know, i wake up, but but look, the damage that russ vought seeks to do here isn't simply to individual programs in the current momen

we just had idaho congressman russ fulcher on. did you listen in? of the morning to you, john. this is a remark for russ fulcher and the subject [indiscernible] i used to pick up his milk. 10,000 gallons every 24 hours. 27 degree milk. this is a subject about 10 capacity size. gas stations have three 20,000 gallon tanks in the ground. 87 octane is in demand. if you look at plus we have anywhere between 150 a day, and your premium you are only averaging between 50 and 100 gallons a day. president trump says he needs 12 months to cut carbon fuel? have them do an inventory nationwide. all we have to do is cut plus out of the program because we don't need it and president trump would cut the cost of fuel in 48 hours. host: i'm trying to keep up with you there, rick. why don't we need it? caller: we don't need it, because you have three grades of octane. we are at a higher altitude, you go down to texas they are at 87 for premium and 83 for regular unleaded. if you understand the air mass density of an engine basically we are at a higher altitude, which

we know this because russ vought has had this job before. when he was picked for this the last time, he told congress that he would follow the law. he said that he wouldn't delay or refuse to spend money that was appropriated by congress. he said he would follow a law that was passed by republicans and democrats in 1974 in response to richard nixon trying to a. buse the -- abuse the powers of his office. he said he would follow that law. he lied. he held up critical funds to support ukraine. this was in 2019 before russia invaded ukraine. an independent government watchdog found that this broke the law. and then again, after hurricanes irma and maria ravaged puerto rico and congress passed aid to help communities recover, vought broke the law again by blocking the funds. congress passed them again. you know what he did? russell vought blocked those funds once again. this is what an unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat looks like -- russell vought. agree with these programs or disagree with them. congress -- republicans and democrats -- voted

president trump directed russ to clothe close it down and he's the right guy to close it down and hopingongress will back up russ on this. >> i love this move, larra rhode island i used to serve on financial services committee and john is probably singing to the quire shough somewhere and so excited about this going away and it's a terrorist organization in a way and financial terrorist organization and prevent banks from engaging and assessing their own resident and can getting in the way of banks to do that and a small number of local and community banks left and have giant and banks for great resources and every level and small lenders up to the small borrowers up to largest borrowers and i love this idea and someone that's been a lawyer at banks and working with banks and love community banks but the larger banks serve a purpose too and they're doing this totally useless and it's duplicative and close it and walk everybody out the door. happy about that. larry: arthur this, is deregulation and make believer organization and serving no purpose at all and stopping business loans, perso

— this want to focus in on this part of russ in august s want to focus in on this part of russ in augustated from the area. let me show you some verified footage, which has been issued by ukraine, which shows fighting in the area. again, there's been territory lost and gained by both sides over the past six months — but the important thing here, ukrainian troops are still in this part of russia — and that means kyiv has something to take to the negotiating table, too. now, territory obviously isn't the only matter that will come up in peace negotiations — there's the economic impact of war, the huge numbers of casualties being sustained, too — but this gives you some sense of the position of both russia and ukraine ahead of talks on the future. around the world and across the uk, this is the world today on bbc news. let's ta ke let's take you now to the latest pictures from a news conference at the oval office in washington, where donald trump is speaking. let's have a listen. ~ , . ~ trump is speaking. let's have a listen. ~ , ., ~ ., listen. will be talking about that, listen. will be

it is congressman russ fulcher of idaho, a republican, energy and commerce and natural resources committee joining us from the rotunda. guest: good morning. thanks for having host: me on today. i wanted to lead with the latest when it comes to the budget reconciliation process. the lead story in punch full news today, house republicans racing to show budget progress amid senate pressure. can you bring us up to speed? guest: what is going on is, people are trying to figure out ways to change the trajectory for spending over the long-term. that is a problem we have had for a long time, as you know. we are $36 trillion in debt. and that is difficult to do. the president and doge group are doing their jobs. they are identifying areas that need to be reduced or eliminated, but congress now has to act. just long-term, to put these policies in place and situations where permanently-speaking we change the trajectory of this spending in washington, d.c. that is where most of the debate is. how do we do that, still maintain the priorities that are important for us to maintain, yet cut the spending s

and that's one of the reasons why vietnam is being targeted by the trump administration. russ feingold, joining us live from ty paid a thank you for your perspective, we appreciate it. thank you. to us president donald trump has also to sell f 355 widgets and military equipment. india, during his amazing with prime minister, met in the morning as the 1st time the 2 ladies met since tom's return to the office. they discuss increasing us all exports to india and collaboration on space travel, security, and artificial intelligence. top of the ones that india will not be sped from higher towers for us as a trade deficit of $50000000000.00 with india. both moody and trump, the leaders of populist 5 right movements and they own countries. and trump has cooled moody. a great friend is alan fisher from the white house. this is about making friends not about making waves. the to man to be very close to is don't comes 1st time in the white house. but he is concerned about the trade deficit. he says it runs around a $100000000000.00. it runs roughly about $50000000000.00. but he's concerned that

embassy and the russ ian kremli listening in, so not a very deep conversation.s kind of conversation on the 3rd. on the 5th, i received a text saying that they didn't know where my brother was. this random person really. so the alarm bells started going off and we were doing some invest investigating, so days went by like this, we knew he wasn't in the independental pen al colony. we found out he was in moscow. we did not tell my mother any of this, we did not want her crushed again. we waited and waited and it was a very tense weak. my mother's expression and like she was really genuinely surprised and i was just crazy relieved. my sister, it was just, we had been working really hard on this. it's taken a toll, but we're so -- i can't even believe he's safe and at home and can get medical attention. [sighing] >> and the blizzard and it has been crazy 24 hours. >> steve: yeah. >> lawrence: ann, i'm curious, i hate to backtrack, this is such a celebratory moment, but when you found out in the past administration they put other people before and he was not part of

i should say that we have now a current acting omb director, russ vought, who was confirmed on thursday night. but back in juary, what the omb was saying was in the interim, to the extent rmissible under appe law, federal agencies must temporarily pause al activitie related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance and oer relevant aactities that may be implicated by the executive orders. this temporaryprove the administration timto review e best uses othe funding fore those programs consistent with the law and the president's priorities. this created a lot of backlash. what is your take on the legality of this approach? well, it's unlawful and we were able to get a court to pause this within, i believe, 24 hours of the memo coming out. it was a callous disregard for the american. this approach did not do anything to enhance efficiency or to create reviews times or contemplation about our federal spending or our federal government. what it did was that it shut off things like head start, meals on wheels, services that rural areas rely on, services that urban area

then republican idaho congressman russ fulcher a member of the energy and commerce committee and the freedom caucus talks about house republicans approach to implement the president trump's legislative agenda. washington journal, join in the conversation, live at 7:00 eastern friday morning on c-span, c-span now on free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more. including charter communications. >> charter is proud to be recognized as one of the best internet providers. we're just getting started. building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, givi you a front row seat to democracy. >> kratz on the senate judiciary committee delayed a vote. chuck grassley intense the hold of old until next week. the session is just under 20 minutes. [gavel] chair grassley: good morning. today's markup will be brief. so i'll get right down to business. on our agenda we've got thr

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but go back to russ vought. know that the federal law establishes that usaid exists and that it gets roughly $29 billion to distribute across the world for military financing, economic assistance, development assistance, humanitarian aid. i know there is a law that says that but go talk to russ vought. and so this document, like, tells us what they were up to. and so i don't really i understand -- i understand that we lost the argument last year. we did. we lost the argument. you didn't vote for us. fair enough. free and fair election. i want to be very clear. i am very confident in that vote count. i don't like it, but i'm very confident in that vote count, and i was -- i don't want to say happy, a but i was determined to ratify the electoral count. we lost the argument about project 2025. it kind of broke through by people didn't think it was the main thing. but it is the main thing now. because as the old saying goes, you campaign in poetry, and you govern in prose. another way to say it is, project 2025? i d

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elon musk and the nomination of russ vought as budget director. they believe musk and vought who interfere with the constitutional authority of congress to control the purse strings. >> so everybody needs to understand that russ vought represents a very specific view of presidential power, which is essentially unitarian executive. his view that once you win you are basically a monarch. >> democrats judy chu and gwen moore went to speaker johnson's office. he was set to talk with bessent. they were upset about access elon musk has to the payment system at the department of treasury. johnson contends congress has not ceded power of the purse to musk and doge. >> we don't see it as a threat to article one at all but an active, engaged, committed executive branch authority doing what they should do. this is not a usurp of authority. >> many republicans like it as doge looks for wasteful programs. >> too often we let things go for years and decades without re-evaluating what it is you are doing, where it is you are spending your money. are you wasting

completely lawless and what were doing is restoring sanity there is no better person to run a web even russght and i'll be very proud to vote for him next week he's getting at is the agenda that we deserve. are you confident he's going to make it through. >> were to get all the president trump nominees across the finish line in its imperative, we've got to get to work. and fortunately the democrats know how to do only one thing which is to block and be the opposition party they have no ideas, no policies that move this country forward, we do and will get it done. you are going to be part next week of a hearing that's going to investigate alleged instances of this termination by maker major banking institutions per key witnesses are going to testify based on their political views, president trump is directly accused bank of america and j.p. morgan chase of what's being called the do banking of conservative customers but the big banks are denying this and there is no political bias, what is the goal of this meeting for this hearing. we gotta get the facts out there i've heard this from consti

but that's not how russ vought sees it. that's not how the trump administration sees it. they see every existing remaining public service from the security at our airports to the administration of our schools as a lost opportunity for the rich to get even richer. i reverenced this article -- i referenced this article earlier but i'll do it again. this politicization. from buyout snyder, it's -- buyout insider. it is entitled back to school. investors are bullish again on education. private equities appetite for the sector is strong is the subheadline. and while a lot of this article is immediately about private industry in tech, the technology that surrounds schools and used by teachers, it talks about the private equity's interest in buying be running schools. it talks about some of the schools that are already being bought and run by private equity. remember becky devos, she ran for profit schools where the goal every day was not to educate kids but to make money for betsy devos and her family. and so part of the agenda here is not just to pass along a tax cut to the bi

meet russ torino who lives in the small town of corning just south of red bluff, picked up a bowlingl as a hobby a little over 50 years ago and despite having to slow down due to a battle with cancer, this past week he just bowled his first ever perfect game. >> for me, shooting that 300 was fine, but the fact that i was 87 and able to do that and i've been bowling well, but i was real sick there about eight years ago with cancer and we beat that into the ground pretty hard, but it's been tough coming back. >> can't believe he's 87. he looks great. torino is a self-taught bowler competing in a senior league every tuesday and then he joins the big boys in the more competitive league on wednesdays. >>> that's it for the news at 5:00. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts right now. >> ryan, thank you. >>> what a day it's been. an atmospheric river is pounding the bay area with heavy rain and strong gusts and it's still going to be a wet and windy night ahead. >>> plus, more rain not what this marin county homeowner needs, how he's doing everything he can to prevent the damage

i heard russ vought say ice is out of money. all i can sell my house colleagues, whatever you need to do to get to one beautiful bill do it. do it now. have my blessing, you have my support. but, if you cannot do it quickly we need to go to plan b. i dare to say that most americans heard what we heard in that room, this debate would end pretty quickly. will quickly give money to tom homan and the military to get the job done. mr. whitehouse: is the senate presently in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. whitehouse: in that case, mr. president, i am here to speak in opposition to the nomination of tulsi gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence of the united states of america. setting aside her lack of qualifications and setting aside her rotten judgment, her nomination strikes me as being part of a pattern of unilateral disarmament by the trump administration against russia. one can hazard as to why this is happening, but the fact that it is happening seems hard to deny. in november 2024, "the w

kadee russ is professor and chair of economics relationship between the us and canada.anada and mexico, exports to canada and mexico support with the simultaneous additional ten percentage point change but it wasn't completely unexpected. japan is down 2.7%. european markets open 25 minutes�* will ”willbe ” will be across there, the us 7 there, the us wall are pointing to lower open, all on a sharply lower open, all on fears that a broad trade war and hit to global growth. and the hit to global growth. no reaction markets in and the hit to global growth. no reacti china narkets in and the hit to global growth. no reacti china narkets they are mainland china because they are close to the �* luna holiday. i asked justin urquhart—stewart, founder hurts all economies. inflationary, potentially, well, no, it is inflationary. so i'm afraid this is going to be bad news all the way around and markets will react accordingly, we've already started seeing some impact certainly in the currencies. but it is rather perverse. to other countries. when it happened with china, for exampl

deputy city attorney brad russ the president made and you explain what this is all about. very well. it's basically something we're required to do departments need to update this based on different duties that have changed in the intermediate in the two years that have passed. and so we engage in a process reaching out to all of them to take a look at their code sections as president mandolin mentioned, there are some minor amendments on page two we're adding the commission streamlining task force which was approved in prop e at the november election on page nine there's an addition and a deletion from the assessor recorder's filers and on page 39 there's an addition for the san francisco unified school district. these amendments are substantive so once you make them you'll have to continue to the next week's meeting. >> thank you so much. deputy city attorney rusty, i don't see any other colleagues on the roster. >> would you please call for public comment, mr. clerk? yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this matter should line up to speak at this time each spe

but what i'm worried about with this administration, especially with people. >> like russ. >> vought helping man the helm, is what happens when a court says, hey, you have to turn the money back on. >> or stop. >> this program. and they say, and. >> the. administration says, no, thank you. >> thank you for your suggestion. >> and moves. >> on with their lives continuing, as we're seeing with the funding freeze where omb rescinded their original memo calling for the freeze. and yet we're still seeing parts. >> of the. >> federal government comply with the freeze. >> as though it's. >> still in place. and that is my worry that you will have parts of the federal government that are willing to just keep. >> the ball. >> rolling as long as possible, as long as the administration says that they should worried about saving their own skins, basically. >> and not getting in trouble. >> with the highers up. >> okay, but here's what i don't understand, peter. the way things get done in government is when the american people want that. russell vote was confirmed tonight. we know he was the archi

. >> where the senate voted to confirm russ vought to run the office of management and budget. the vote was along party lines. vote was a key architect of project 2025. remember what donald trump said he wanted nothing to do with. yet much of what's happened in the last 17 days is straight out of the 2025 playbook. and vote said in his confirmation hearing that he believes president trump can withhold spending. congress has already authorized. look, i know all of this can be overwhelming, but it is important to remember there are still checks and balances, however imperfect, that can block some of the things that donald trump is proposing. and it's happening right now. the courts are only just beginning to assert themselves. his challenge to birthright citizenship is. >> on hold. >> and the courts came down hard on his administration's sweeping spending freeze. and just this evening, the deadline for around 2 million federal workers to take a buyout offer was originally just under one hour from now. but today, a federal judge temporarily blocked that deadline until at least mon

and russ votes trying to kill it on behalf of these corporations. so that's just one of many examples where we're seeing something unfold that on the campaign trail, trump was like, i don't know what this is all about. >> i'm going to come back to the cfpb in just a moment. but i want to go back to the fact that you are on the appropriations and the budget committees. i don't know if those rank as people's favorite committees in the public, but they are the ones in the constitution. they are the thing in the that the united states constitution says that you and congress actually have to do, you actually have to meet and you actually have to appropriate the government funds. and it's pretty explicit that that is a congressional responsibility, not a presidential responsibility. i'm not sure how in the last few weeks, this administration has been succeeding in in doing things like gutting government agencies and, you know, freezing funds. it's not there. it's by law, not their their purview. >> well, that's right, i mean, this is a gross violation of

russ. russ, vote is going to be able to help. you mentioned him getting confirmed. but listen, the only thing that's faster than an elon musk tesla is donald trump and his team making sure that the american people are back in control. and what we're seeing here is that donald trump has instilled instilled hope in america and fear in washington, dc. wouldn't it have been better if those billions of dollars had been sent to western north carolina to actually rebuild instead of some day? i woke kind of trans deal in in ireland or across the country in africa. you know, it is just unbelievable what we've seen. but yet what we are seeing right now is president trump putting his foot on the gas and going from 0 to 60 in two seconds. >> you know, it's a great way to put it. i think elon musk, you know, first of all, his personal accomplishments have benefited every human being on this earth. that's number one. he's going to rescue our our astronauts. he helped the people in north carolina, the people in tennessee, the people in california. and he did it for free. he and th

i would just say that russ vogt's aim is really to destroy the government from the inside out.inister motive, which is also to kind of grease the skids for his new business interests. we know that elon musk is interested in starting his own payment app. he's partnered with visa to do that. and so he has a real interest in ensuring that the cfpb isn't blocking an effort like that. but he also has an interest in getting into something like the consumer financial protection bureau, which has trade secrets from enforcement actions against some of his likely future competitors. >> so this brings me to my last question, which is relative to what you've written about the new the. today, the federal judge ordering that temporary block of d.o.j. employee access to sensitive treasury payment systems. you wrote about this in the in the column saying that there are several reasons that musk wants to control these payments. none of them are good. and the new york times reports musk allies wanted access so they could freeze foreign aid payments. so what do musk's actions so far? what do they

and that is where democrats have said, much like what we saw them do with the nomination of russ voters switched off positions, where they spoke from the senate floor. we expect that to take place here through the night, ahead of what is going to be an ea mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. republican who voted against it. and on the democratic side, it was down the line, not one defection. >> yes. >> jose. >> as you know. >> this. job is a. relatively recent job. it was only created. >> after nine over. >> 11 when people saw all the different silos of information. of these 18 intelligence services that weren't coordinated. so they decided, let's try to coordinate them and create someone at the top of that. that's the job she was just confirmed for. it's a very important job. it's the person who actually decides what the president sees in the daily brief every morning. and what's what's important of that stuff that comes in there. i think part of the reason that people voted against her is she's not an experienced intelligence officia

last night on capitol hill, the senate voted to confirm russ vought for the office of management and budget. he was a key architecture of the controversial project 2025. during confirmation hearing in the past he has said he believes president trump can withhold spending that congress has already authorized. something we're hearing a lot of complaints about, frances. back to you. >>> homeland security chief kristi noem is heading to guantanamo bay today. president trump has said he wants to send tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants to the notorious camp in cuba. at least 23 have been flown there. her visit comes as trump faces new backlash in his push to end birthright citizenship. a judge blocking that order. the u.s. district judge in seattle putting the order on hold nationwide for the duration of lawsuits brought by four states and an immigration rights grou the justice department is appealing the ruling. >>> backlash also mounting this morning over president trump's controversial proposal to take over gaza. mr. trump doubled down on that plan thursday, adding he would no

. >> russ vogt wrote. >> project 2025 and now donald trump is rewarding him by inviting him into the government in order to carry out the republican blueprint to make our government force. people to live in the image that russ vogt and other extremist republicans approve of. >> he's the last. person who should be put in a. >> job at. >> the heart of the operation. >> of our government. >> behind every one of these budget lines are people. people who will be. hurt if the president and mr. vogt get. >> their way. >> and cut off federal grants. >> vogt has shown complete. disregard for democratic institutions. >> he is donald trump's most dangerous nominee. >> vote confirmation tonight comes as elon musk and his cadre of 20 something coders continue to infiltrate federal buildings, plugs things into servers and try to hollow out the united states government from within. today, we learned more about one of those aides to musk. marco alcs is his name. he is the 25 year old doge staff member who reportedly had access to the treasury department's most sensitive payment systems, the one that

i know we're coming in and out of the executive session on the russ vote. why not, if you're so upset about this and this is such a damning action down there, make them go through every single parliamentary hurdle, go in and out of executive session, put holds on every single nominee, and make this as difficult as possible? sen. murray: we are pursuing every action that we think we can do, but i will tell you this . we are here to pull the fire alarm. we are pulling the fire alarm. it is up to republicans who are the majority in congress, who are passing these nominations, who are sitting silently by while elon musk goes into departments, into agencies, and takes your information. it is up to them to decide whether they want to get out the fire hoses or sit in the fire, and i think we know what they need to do, and we're calling on them to do that. >> chad, one fact i know because you follow the finance committee, the filing season has just started and we got word that musk apparently doesn't agree with the treasury secretary. the treasury secretary said th

abc news obtained an email that russ vought, the cfpb acting director and architect of project 2025, sent to staff this morning saying not to perform any work tasks. the white house, alleging the agency has, quote, long functioned as another woke and weaponized arm of the government. senator elizabeth warren, who helped create the agency slamming the administration, saying cfpb has helped return over $21 billion to consumers. >> trump campaigned on helping working people, but now that he's in charge, this is the payoff to the rich guys who invested in his campaign and who want to cheat families and not have anybody around to stop them. >> reena roy, abc news, new york. >> and developing. in the last hour, a judge issued an order temporarily blocking the national institute of health from taking any steps to change its research funding. the order comes after 22 state attorneys general, including california's rob bonta, sued the trump administration over the planned cuts. the trump administration had ordered capping in direct payments to research grants at 15%. those indirect payments i