{"id":189974,"date":"2025-11-13T17:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=189974"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:33:19","slug":"shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=189974","title":{"rendered":"Shadow President: Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought Is Using Shutdown to Gut Federal Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the influence of Trump\u2019s top budget adviser and the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, over the Trump administration\u2019s policies and Trump himself. Vought is \u201cthe driving force behind the [government] shutdown\u201d and \u201cbasically a second commander-in-chief, a shadow president,\u201d says ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/10\/21\/russell_vought_propublica_shadow_president\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the influence of Trump\u2019s top budget adviser and the architect of Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies.jpg",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189974-shadow-president-project-2025-architect-russell-vought-is-using-shutdown-to-gut-federal-agencies-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}