Elon Musk left DOGE to start drama, but the department will continue to wreak havoc on millions of Americans with its new successor, Russell Vought, who Democracy Docket dug into this week.

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Elon Musk left DOGE to start drama, but the department will continue to wreak havoc on millions of Americans with its new successor, Russell Vought. We dug into Vought to bring you everything you need to know about the new head of DOGE. Support reporting like this, that focuses on the facts and cuts through the noise. ([link removed] )



Meet Russell Vought, the New Face of the DOGE Agenda

By Jacob Knutson

Though Elon Musk is leaving the White House, DOGE isn’t going anywhere.

It appears that Russell Vought — Trump’s budget hawk and one of the chief architects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 — is stepping in to become DOGE’s new power broker.

With Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist, at the helm, the slash-and-burn effort against the federal government may be on the cusp of an even darker turn.

In many ways, Vought is what Musk is not.

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