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.