January 15: Office of Management & Budget Director – Russell Vought
In This Role He Could:
- Fund fake abortion clinics (also known as “crisis pregnancy centers”) through the President’s budget and reject any agency rules that advance reproductive health care.
- Fast track regulations that restrict abortion, including ones that make it easier for law enforcement to access the medical records of abortion patients and defund Title X health clinics.
Red Flags: -He is against abortion even in instances of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother, and has said “Defending life is the most important issue to me.” -Wrote a chapter of Project 2025 that advocates for abolishing the White House Gender Policy Council, which is tasked with advancing gender equality. -Suggested defunding fetal tissue research and said that the federal budget should be used to promote Western families having more babies. |
Vought’s record is clear. He is one of the authors of Project 2025, the dangerous blueprint for the Trump administration that calls for:
A national ban on medication abortion by urging the FDA to reverse its approval of mifepristone and misoprostol.
The criminalization of mailing abortion pills using the Comstock Act.
Expanding “conscience laws” that allow providers to deny care based on personal beliefs.
Cutting federal funding to states that protect abortion access.
In this position, Vought would have broad authority to shape the President’s budget and fast-track anti-abortion regulations across the federal government. He has explicitly called for abolishing the Gender Policy Council to eliminate government efforts that support reproductive rights.