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Your words, quote...': Mark Warner shows no mercy to Trump's Project 25 author turned OMB Director's 'ideological Jihad'
At a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) questioned Russell Vought, nominee for OMB Director:watch:
transcripted:
I got to tell you though um kind of curious about your background. Dozen years on the Hill, government bureaucrat right-wing Think Tank, you're a total product of what magga folks call the swamp. I'm not sure how that swamp expertise is going to help you in this job.
I'm you know I'm a little different than most folks here I actually run a business met a payroll, managed an operation. You've had no private sector experience, and I look then at what you've said from just the management standpoint it seems like what you want to do is how many federal workers can you get to quit how many federal work offices can you go out and relocate.
And I got to tell you, your words, quote, -we want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected because they are increasingly viewed as villains we want to put them in trauma - I got to tell you you want to oversee this Workforce and you want to put the workforce in trauma sir that would be management malpractice.
I appreciate the fact of what you've done in the past let's look at your record it's an interview 2019 you help move the BLM out 170% increase in vacancies of the BLM.
The folks supposed to be independent said that move dramatically impaired its ability to serve the American people another failure that some of us pointed out last time you said let's move part of the Department of Agriculture out two bureaus led to 40% and 60% reduction in effectivness.
You realize of course I hope that to become a CIA agent it takes about a year to get a secureity clearance you aware of that yes I am all right so in your Project 25 Magnus you put forward the idea that somehow breaking up the CIA and moving it around the country would make our nation more safe.
Do you not understand sir, that if President Trump by having the intelligence Community close to him to have ability from folks from NSA, to CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI in this region, your idea of let's somehow on this ideological Jihad to break up the intelligence community's effectiveness - I would ask you sir can you show any evidence that somehow we would make our nation safer if you put your political litmus test, and you know this idea of bringing trauma to the federal Workforce by taking the intelligence Community which has been supported on a bipartisan basis year in and year out, and somehow breaking it up and spreading it hither and yawn just for a political purpose - how does that make our nation safer?
I would argue you have to make a business case before you start breaking up the government I'm all for effectiveness. Would you going to be willing here to commit not to undermine our National Intelligence Community by arbitrarily trying to break them up and spread them around just because you want to blow up the Federal Workforce in this region?
...I think you're completely irresponsible actions on so-called Schedule F you know we put a civil service in place but I urge you sir if you become in this position think long and hard about the men and women of of the National Security and the intelligence Community before you go on some political Jihad of trying to score points by simply trying to break up an operation that actually functions better because of their close collaboration - and your comments about the federal workforce, I find disqualifying.
I got to tell you though um kind of curious about your background. Dozen years on the Hill, government bureaucrat right-wing Think Tank, you're a total product of what magga folks call the swamp. I'm not sure how that swamp expertise is going to help you in this job.
I'm you know I'm a little different than most folks here I actually run a business met a payroll, managed an operation. You've had no private sector experience, and I look then at what you've said from just the management standpoint it seems like what you want to do is how many federal workers can you get to quit how many federal work offices can you go out and relocate.
And I got to tell you, your words, quote, -we want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected because they are increasingly viewed as villains we want to put them in trauma - I got to tell you you want to oversee this Workforce and you want to put the workforce in trauma sir that would be management malpractice.
I appreciate the fact of what you've done in the past let's look at your record it's an interview 2019 you help move the BLM out 170% increase in vacancies of the BLM.
The folks supposed to be independent said that move dramatically impaired its ability to serve the American people another failure that some of us pointed out last time you said let's move part of the Department of Agriculture out two bureaus led to 40% and 60% reduction in effectivness.
You realize of course I hope that to become a CIA agent it takes about a year to get a secureity clearance you aware of that yes I am all right so in your Project 25 Magnus you put forward the idea that somehow breaking up the CIA and moving it around the country would make our nation more safe.
Do you not understand sir, that if President Trump by having the intelligence Community close to him to have ability from folks from NSA, to CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI in this region, your idea of let's somehow on this ideological Jihad to break up the intelligence community's effectiveness - I would ask you sir can you show any evidence that somehow we would make our nation safer if you put your political litmus test, and you know this idea of bringing trauma to the federal Workforce by taking the intelligence Community which has been supported on a bipartisan basis year in and year out, and somehow breaking it up and spreading it hither and yawn just for a political purpose - how does that make our nation safer?
I would argue you have to make a business case before you start breaking up the government I'm all for effectiveness. Would you going to be willing here to commit not to undermine our National Intelligence Community by arbitrarily trying to break them up and spread them around just because you want to blow up the Federal Workforce in this region?
...I think you're completely irresponsible actions on so-called Schedule F you know we put a civil service in place but I urge you sir if you become in this position think long and hard about the men and women of of the National Security and the intelligence Community before you go on some political Jihad of trying to score points by simply trying to break up an operation that actually functions better because of their close collaboration - and your comments about the federal workforce, I find disqualifying.
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