Security detail for President Donald Trump’s budget chief and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought is being paid for by what’s left in funding for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.
There isn’t much left of USAID after Trump and Vought worked together to dismantle the agency last year. Just around 100 staff members are left to close out all operations by September.
Still, the White House Office of Management and Budget, which Vought oversees, is allocating $15 million from what remains of USAID operating expenses to pay the US. Marshals Service to protect the political appointee through the end of 2026.
Earlier this year, a man was arrested and is facing attempted murder charges after law enforcement said he showed up at Vought’s Northern Virginia home with rubber gloves and a surgical mask.
According to officials within the Trump administration, Vought has received increased threats related to his work since being picked by the president and his control over Project 2025, the conservative blueprint that has influenced much of Trump’s second term.
Mother Jones has not seen or confirmed any of these threats.
Hell be in line to the guillotine-ride. If he’s not, trust me, he will be.
Locking people up -> protecting society. Killing people -> doing the same as them just inverted.
Killing people does. Not. Work. And it isn’t necessary.
Why is the us that obsessed with killing each other?
Look at Nuremberg; many were executed, but way more Nazis got to live free lives after WWII. When we let these people live, their hate will be hidden, but only among strangers. When they’re comfortable, they’ll be openly racist/homophobic/whatever, and when that gets accepted in a group, more and more people will eventually follow, and we’ll get the rise of Naziism again. Just look at where we are today; the right is growing everywhere, and the cost is increasing on everything.
However, there is still more money being thrown around, and there’s inflation? Less money is giving a rise to fascism, which is EXACTLY what the rich wants: let the plebs fight themselves.
No. I’m done. Fuck that. First, we go after the rich, then the intolerant.
But you are intolerant…?
https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/c/news/comments/43145503
Here is why. They do not care about you, they even want you to die, so why the fuck are you protecting them?
No, the head of the snake getting crushed is what its taken for most regimes like these get stopped throughout history.
Killing tyrants has a long and proven track record of success through human history.
lol you’re delusional
I’d like to see them locked up myself.
If you wanna defend them you can join the millionaire’s march.