Brandon Cloud (@theclobra.bsky.social)

Day One of the Fascist Purge: Russ Vought of OMB Plans to Punish Democrats The shutdown was supposed to be about budgets. Instead, it has become a bonfire of the civil service, and the match is being struck in Russ Vought’s hand. On the first day of the shutdown, he told House Republicans that…

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Day One of the Fascist Purge: Russ Vought of OMB Plans to Punish Democrats The shutdown was supposed to be about budgets. Instead, it has become a bonfire of the civil service, and the match is being struck in Russ Vought’s hand. On the first day of the shutdown, he told House Republicans that mass firings would begin “in a day or two.” This wasn’t speculation. He described a sequence: agencies compiling RIF packages immediately, the first wave of pink slips hitting “non-essential” units—including fee-funded offices that technically still had money—and broader cuts rolling through probationary workers and policy jobs reclassified under the resurrected Schedule F. https://theclobra.com/day-one-of-the-fascist-purge-russ-vought-of-omb-plans-to-punish-democrats/