President again, Project 2025's fingerprints are all over his agenda.

Even one of the key architects of Project 2025, Russell Vote, is back in the administration,

resuming the role he held during Trump's first administration,

director of the Office of Management and Budget.

And on Friday, vote was named acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection

Bureau, which protects consumers from deceptive practices by banks, lenders, or other financial

institutions.

The CFPB has been targeted for elimination by Project 2025, and now it's the latest federal agency to come into the

crosshairs of President Trump and Elon Musk.

Last night, vote sent a series of directives to slow a portion of the Bureau's activity,

effectively putting them at a standstill.

And earlier today, CFPB's employees were told to start working remotely as the

Washington, D.C. headquarters will be closed all this week.

What are we doing here? If federal funding is supposed to be routed through Congress and you

are just bypassing us, then why do I show up to the Capitol every week?

That's a great question. And for decades that I've been involved in government and politics,

even the legislative side, even if it's split government,

tends to work together to fight for their powers against the executive branch.

It's not uncommon to see that.

But what we're seeing now is that the Republicans in the

House and Senate are willing to completely fold to Donald Trump's will. They're buying into he has a

mandate. He doesn't have a mandate. He has the slimmest majorities possible in the House. He has three,

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