because the richest man in the world who's helping russell vogt run the show is the beneficiary of the status quo when it comes to private contracting. >> david, we knew a long time ago, i think for people who have been following trump that he was never going to be an economic populist, even though he pretended to be one. in 2016, his biggest legislative win by far in his first term was this tax cut for the rich, just like any republican would have done. and yet, in november, he won the working class one with voters making less than $100,000 per year. if his man of the people routine is so obviously fake, how is he making gains with working class voters? how did he manage to pull that off? >> it's a great question. i think there are two factors. i think inflation. he was able to make an anti-incumbent argument. and let's remember, in the presidential races, i mean, we are now we've had multiple elections where the incumbent party, both in congress, by the way, and at the presidential level, have been thrown out. americans keep voting for change. they're clearly unhappy. but i also thin

russell vogt and tom homan were two of the guests today.he reason is, is because homan, as the reporting says, was literally begging for money, saying, look, donald trump ran and won on a mandate of border security and immigration and deportation. and the department of homeland security is running out of money to do what is necessary to implement donald trump's agenda. so please give us money. so the senate has proposed about $175 billion, which is also the amount that homan says is necessary for the next four years to implement this. the senate's going to move on this process as early as this week. but the house is stuck. they are stuck on how to move this forward. if it should be tied to tax cuts. it's becoming quite, quite complicated. they can't even figure out the process of how to pass what or how to move forward on donald trump's signature agenda, but what's also going to be really important here is that part of this entire process among house republicans is to drastically reduce government spending. the reason the senate is moving o

elon musk is executing the strategy that russell vogt put together, and the president endorsed this.sell vogt said, we want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected because they are increasingly viewed as villains. we want to put them in trauma. the trauma and the chaos is the point. >> i couldn't agree with you more, and i think it's great that you're connecting it back to project 2025 because, you know, during the campaign we heard so much about no, no, no, ignore that. that's not what's going to happen. and it's exactly what is happening. and it's really not about just saying, oh, i want to make government more efficient or i want the sort of worst of the people who are sort of incompetent, and we want to sort of hold them to account. that's not what's going on. when you get rid of people who protect nuclear power plants, and then you have to rehire them. that's not because you're doing some very scalpel like triage of the people who really can be let go. this is really about eliminating civil service. so that that's another check. on the. executive branch. it's a check on peo

>> reporter: democrats are also protesting russell vogt's nomination to lead the office of management and budget, delivering speeches late into the night on the senate floor, in fact, promising an all-night session. vogt was a co-author of prect 2025 and president trump has described him as an aggressive cost cutter. a final vote is expected today. and he is expected to be approved along party lines. frances? >> alice, thank you. >>> the drastic changes in washington, d.c. have federal workers all across the country feeling shocked and panicked. hallie jackson spoke to some of them. >> reporter: from fury to fear. >> will my position remain? >> reporter: a range of reactions from federal workers. >> none of this is okay. >> reporter: as the president pushes to scale back the size of government across all agencies, including usaid, which officially terminated kristina dry. >> it's heartbreaking. because we know that people are going to be less healthy, less safe, through no choice of our own. >> reporter: what does this mean for your life for the short term here? >> yeah, i think in 10

be energy secretary, as well as to advance that nomns of pam bondi to be attorney general and russell vogts white house budget director. the house gavels and tuesday a noon eastern. members will consider legin to provide an that criminally classify fentanyl related subsidence as schedule one drugs that haveong as controls and penalties. watch live coverage on c-span, the senate oan2. all of our congressional coverage is on our free mobile app, c-span now, and online at c-span.org. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including midco. ♪ >> where are you going? or maybe a better question is how far do you want to go? and how fast do you want to get there? now, we are getting somewhere. so, let's go. let's go faster. let's go further. let's go beyond.

>> omd director russell vogt. welcome to the show.u look forward to one of these great pounding trump showers again. >> i do, larry, thanks for having me on. >> jimmy: we've reached a point where old bald men are openly fantasizing about getting a good pounding in the shower. [ laughter ] [ applause ] thanks to donald trump. but that is the level of fealty required right now. the white house, yesterday, banned reporters from the associated press because the outlet refuses to call the "gulf of mexico" "the gulf of america," which is the name trump has given it, because he is dumb. [ laughter ] so they kicked them out of the oval office. "you cannot report from here anymore." they're going to keep kicking journalists out until all they have left are fox, newsmax, oan, onlyfans, and "golf digest." [ laughter ] that will be it. both google and apple maps have both fallen in line with this gulf of america thing. google put out a guide for what people will now see when they search for it online. if you're in the united states, it's called t

russell vogt, the new head of the office of management and budget, has effectively shut down the consumerancial protection bureau in an email. vogt directed the agency to stop work on proposed rules, pause any rules set to go into effect, and stop any ongoing investigations. it was created during the obama administration following the 2008 financial crisis. >> president trump has also ordered a plan to make a facility at guantanamo bay, which he says could hold up to 30,000 migrants. two flights of migrants have already been sent to that naval base. but as fox's cb cotton shows us, the plans are facing considerable backlash. >> dhs secretary kristi noem is standing by the legality of the administration's mass deportation plans, which include guantanamo bay. the criticism is coming primarily from the american civil liberties union about the living conditions and due process for the migrants who are being shipped there. gnome tells fox the military is on the ground to make sure the facilities meet u.s. standards, and she also says the migrants being taken to gitmo are dangerous criminals. >

russell vogt, the newly installed acting head of the agency, over the weekend tweeted this.been a woke and weaponized agency against disfavored industries and individuals for a long time. this must end. to which you would say what? rohit: i don't know what on earth that means. the actions that have been taken by the cfpb in the past few years are against debt collectors who are illegally collecting on medical debt against companies like capital one, which have been withholding billions of dollars in interest. credit reporting companies who have tarnished credit reports improperly due to errors. these are things people of every political stripe want to protect themselves against. and often, consumers do not have much power again some of the -- against some of the biggest corporations in america. that is what the cfpb does to level the playing field. geoff: apart from those who view the agency as being too aggressive, there are people who wonder if the functions could be carried out in another way. every state has a consumer protection office. why can't states to do this work,

that's what russell vogt says he wants. this is the guy who beta tested. beta tested the idea that the president can unilaterally make decisions about spending as the budget director in trump's first term. do you remember this one? again, maybe lost to history, but i was there, i remember it, russell vote was one of the administration officials who actually tested this out on $400 million appropriated by congress, signed by the president for arms sales to ukraine. and at trump's request, vogt and others just didn't release the money impounded. it froze the arms sales. it was, of course, part of trump's corrupt bargain to try and trade arms to ukrainians in exchange for dirt he could use against joe biden. in fact, he got impeached for it, a federal watchdog said vogt's impoundment of the funds was illegal. it flatly is. there's a law barring it as well as the constitution. but again, he and trump and musk don't care. they don't care about faithfully executing the laws. their plan is a post-constitutional order in which they seize power. as vogt posted to t

if russell vogt has been appointed director of omb and you have elon musk saying, rest in peace to thehich you say has returned about $21 billion in fraud, let's say, right, to the american, to the treasury. is there a chance the two of them are going to butt heads, or are they on the same page? >> yeah. >> it's hard to say, but i think they're really on the same page. i would just say that russ vogt's aim is really to destroy the government from the inside out. elon musk, i think, has likely a more sinister 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, t

>> i think russell vogt, the head of the omb, is one of the people who actually understands the systemse leveraged and what would be bad if broken. but i think that sending elon out to break things right now, it may eventually clash with the sort of work within the bounds of the system approach that vogt has. so i think that's where a power struggle may come in the future. but for right now, the what's happening right now, vogt and the others who understand how musk is working are more than happy to let him be a wrecking ball. >> right, chuck? more than happy to allow him to be a wrecking ball until something serious happens, right? because musk having this much power doesn't just raise the question of corruption. it also raises this question of just competence. nbc news actually reported today that after mistakenly firing the people who oversee the country's nuclear stockpile, the trump administration is now frantically trying to hire them back. but they're having trouble even reaching them now. so they're essentially cutting jobs off people when they don't even know what they do. >> y

russell vogt, who is now the head of the omb, the same guy who did that back then and encouraged that idea and denied the success of the reality of the 2020 elections, is now in charge of the office of management and budget. so it's that 922 page document that nobody wanted to read is now coming to fruition. >> and he's one of the architects of it. in fact, when he left the trump administration in the first term, he and many of the friends and mega-donors in their circles, you know, reached out to the heritage foundation. they helped establish these other organizations, and they literally wrote the document and put together the legal theories. and by the way, the executive orders that donald trump signed on day one. so all of this is not these are not isolated activities. they're all part of a larger strategy that this group of folks who've come back into office, who are trying to steal our government and dismantle our agencies and steal our democracy from us, are executing on that they've planned for several years. >> there's this neat thing going on because a lot of people are kind

and it's russell vogt's job to prevent that waste from further continuing.and forth that's going to continue for some time. but right now, chris, republicans and the trump administration are in the driver's seat. it may be some time before the rest of the american public sees the full impact of these decisions that they're making. >> chris ryan nobles, thank you. there was some rare bipartisanship in congress. 98 democrats voting in favor, along with 214 of their republican counterparts passing the holt fentanyl act last night. the bill classifies street versions of fentanyl related substances as schedule one drugs. that means they have a high potential for abuse, and it gives law enforcement more power to crack down on drug traffickers. the holt fentanyl act is now headed to the senate, where it is expected to pass. dhs secretary kristi noem is visiting guantanamo bay today, looking firsthand at the notorious military detention center where the trump administration plans to house tens of thousands of migrants. now, it's not the first time it's been used for

co author russell vogt has just been confirmed by the united states senate as donald trump's budget directorplan. trump said he knew nothing about. all republicans voted for vote, and all democrats voted against him. as politico notes, vogt has said he wants to inflict trauma on the federal workforce, dismantle an elitist regime he believes has long stifled conservatives, and shake the very foundations of american government he believes has been captured by an administrative state. >> look, guys, we knew this was coming. we talked about it for almost a year before it happened. everybody put their head in the sand and pretended as if it wasn't going to happen. they believed the crap coming out of trump's mouth that he didn't know what this was. and now they're running around this town and around the country going, wait a minute, hold up. can he do that? how can he do that? well, they laid it out at 900 pages for you folks. >> they laid it out in 900 pages. and i actually thought there's something very particular that he wrote in the section about the omb director, because, reminder, he is bot

protection bureau was in the middle of doing before russell vogt. >> and elon. >> musk and donald trumpo. okay. so you always ask yourself. >> in situations like this. >> who's going to benefit? who's going to benefit if this work is stopped? certainly not consumers. but i can tell you that the big banks and the wealthy. >> financial interests. >> they are the ones that are going to be better off because of this. and so you've got to ask. >> yourself. >> why is donald trump serving those wealthy. interests right now and not americans? >> so what can you do? i mean, i guess this question applies to every single one of the topics that we've been discussing in the last couple of weeks, because they all seem some of them appear to be unconstitutional. some of them have faced judicial orders. but what can you actually do about this attack on the cfpb? >> well. >> listen, i. >> mean. >> you know as well as i do that the united states senators who are in the democratic party have 47 votes in the senate. we stayed up all night long. we worked our hardest to stop russell vote from getting this n

the senate voting to confirm russell vogt as the next head of the white house office of management andvogt, who helped author the conservative project 2025 policy agenda that president trump distanced himself from during the campaign. and uk security officials are pressing apple to create a new way for them to gain access to any user's cloud storage data. the washington post reports that that includes british citizens, but also any other apple user worldwide. sources told the paper that apple would probably stop offering encrypted storage in the uk in response, but that wouldn't necessarily protect users in other countries. >> meantime, tesla shares or i should say, sales. but shares falling in china last month despite recent price cuts. the company sold about 63,000 cars in january, down 11% from last year's more than 71,000. tesla has been facing increasing ev competition in china. local rivals byd, selling close to 300,000 electric and plug in hybrid cars last month. and that number was up 47% year over year. what do you make of that? it's unbelievable. >> i don't know. yeah. i'm no

vogt wrote that christian nationalism is, quote, a commitment to an institutional separation between church and state, but not the separation of christianity from its influence on government and society. end quote. you're wrong, russell, about that. he is wrong, but he sure is powerful. although vogt has only been a member of the new administration for a few days, his influence is already being felt in a number of very, very important ways. in addition to being the director of the office of management and budget, he's also taken on the role of acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau. that's the agency tasked with protecting american consumers from predatory financial products and practices. and in an email to cfpb employees sent out last night, he issued a dozen directives that effectively paused most of the agency's activities activities that protect consumers from predatory practices by companies. those developments come a day after elon musk's surprise surprise posted on x quote. cfpb, r.i.p, basically boasting about how the trump administration is planning to gut that agency next month, much like they did with usaid last week. votes takeover of the cfpb provides a snapshot of the changes that

russell vote's nomination to lead the office of management and budget. he's expected to be confirmed later today. democrats have been concerned about vogt'sject 2025, and its false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. >> and number six, rain not really impacting the morning commute just yet. we're just seeing some sprinkles, but that could change soon. and you can see here the bay bridge upper deck is crowded this morning. highway four to san francisco one hour, three minutes. >> number seven gott's roadside is about to offer you a sweet treat. they're opening a cookie counter at san francisco's ferry building. it will be next to its soft serve counter. it's expected to open in april. ooh. >> i love a good cookie. i love a good cookie. >> yeah, not just a cookie. and you want it right out of the oven. >> i want it soft. i want to see the melted chocolate chips. >> oh, yeah. they better be big. oh, yeah. you know, with. >> the soft serve. >> can you imagine, like eating at this point? a store bought cookie that's been sitting in there for weeks >> george: good morning america for our viewers in the west. major winter storm hitting now

russell vote's nomination to lead the office of management and budget. he's expected to be confirmed later today. democrats have been concerned about vogt's its false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. >> and number six rain not impacting your morning drive just yet. we're going to take a look at your drive. times tracy to dublin 30 minutes. san rafael to san francisco 19 minutes antioch to concord 14 minutes. >> number seven crayola says eight nostalgic crayon colors are coming back by popular demand. some of the colors coming out of retirement include dandelion, blizzard, blue and magic mint. today is the nba trade deadline for the warriors, and they've had a tough go this year, attracting top talent. but they've just made a big announcement there in the works to finalize a deal to bring jimmy butler to san francisco. butler has agreed to a new two year, $121 million extension with the franchise through 2026 and 2027. to get him, the warriors are sending andrew wiggins, dennis schroder and kyle anderson and a protected first round pick to miami. >> we expect to have a motivated, committed you know jimmy that's ready to impact our

director and now acting cfpb director russell vought telling employees to work remotely at the headquarters in washington, which has. >> been closed. >> on saturday, vogt. issued a notice that demanded employees cease all supervision and examination activity. vogt also notified the federal reserve that the cfpb will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding. last week, treasury secretary scott bessent called on the agency to not start any new investigations or approve or issue final rules. >> now on to doge. elon musk. >> called for. >> the. federal judge to temporarily. >> blocked his. >> team from the treasury. department's payment system. >> to be impeached. the court. >> precluded officials. >> without proper background checks and security clearances from accessing. >> the payment. >> system through at least. >> next friday. >> including political appointees and special government appointees. affiliated with musto's team. >> 19 democratic. >> state. >> attorney generals. sued president trump. >> they say. >> that he. >> violated constitutional law by giving musk access. >> to the treasury department. >> vice president jd vance. >> sugge