Take Action: Impeach Trump’s budget director Russell Vought!
We Warned You About Russ Vought. Now Impeach Him.
Friends, way back in January 2025 we tried to warn our People Power United readers who Russell Vought was when he was seeking confirmation.1
Before the Senate confirmed Trump’s Project 2025 architect to control the nation’s budget, we warned that Vought wanted to gut the federal government, purge public servants, seize power over money Congress appropriated, weaken independent agencies, and turn the machinery of government into a weapon for Trump’s agenda.
Republicans in the Senate confirmed him anyway.
Now we are seeing the warnings come true.
The Schedule F purge Vought championed? Revived under a new name.
The attack on independent federal agencies? Underway.
The scheme to let the president decide whether to spend money Congress already appropriated? Vought has pushed it from extremist theory toward governing practice.
And now comes one of the ugliest examples yet.
The Trump administration admitted in court filings that it canceled clean-energy grants “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state.” 2 3Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove says Vought’s Office of Management and Budget selectively terminated or withheld congressionally appropriated Department of Energy grants based on political considerations.4
Translation: Vote against Trump, and your community can be punished with its own tax dollars.
That is not budgeting.
Our taxes should not become Trump’s personal slush fund when they reach Washington.
Congress controls federal appropriations under our constitutional system. A president does not get to reward loyal states and punish disfavored ones. His budget director (Russ Vought) does not get to substitute the president’s political agenda for laws Congress enacts.
This is precisely why impeachment is on the table.
On August 6, Representative Kamlager-Dove introduced two articles of impeachment against Vought: abuse of power through improper impoundment of congressionally appropriated funds and failure to faithfully execute the laws of the United States.5
And she did not mince words:
“We cannot sit idly by while an unelected shadow president continues to weaponize the federal government and steal taxpayers’ hard-earned money.”
Damn right.
Take Action» Impeach Russell Vought
This is bigger than Russell Vought. It is bigger than one grant, one agency, or one state.
If an administration can punish Americans because their state voted the ‘wrong’ way, it threatens our shared community and collective rights.
Disaster relief?
Housing?
Schools?
Infrastructure?
Medical research?
This is how authoritarian power grows: turn public institutions into instruments of loyalty and punishment, dare Congress to stop you, and count on people becoming too exhausted to notice.
But we noticed.
We warned about Vought before he was confirmed. Now Congress has evidence of what his leadership looks like in practice.
Enough warnings.
Enough excuses.
Enough allowing Project 2025’s architects to treat the Constitution like an inconvenience.
Congress has a constitutional tool for officials accused of abusing the power entrusted to them. Use it to hold them accountable and protect our democracy.
🔥 Tell the House: Impeach Russell Vought
Tell your House representative to support accountability and the articles of impeachment against Russell Vought.
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Our tax dollars are not Trump’s revenge fund.
Our government is not his political weapon.
And our Constitution does not come with a loyalty oath to Donald Trump.
Power belongs to the people. It’s damn well time Congress remembered that.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/24/trump-clean-energy-grants-chris-wright/e14d89a6-87bc-11f1-9cec-0fb26676f07e_story.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-administration-cancel-clean-energy-grants-democrat-states
https://kamlager-dove.house.gov/media/press-releases/kamlager-dove-introduces-articles-impeachment-against-omb-director-russell
https://kamlager-dove.house.gov/media/press-releases/kamlager-dove-introduces-articles-impeachment-against-omb-director-russell