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.
That guy. Definitely one of those top Epstein clients
$15 million for security for just this year? Is he commuting to work on a megayacht? While lounging in a hot tub full of Dom? Snorting exotic substances from the bottoms of expensive hookers?
It’s socialism for the powerful and austerity for everyone else.
This motherfucker is one of the ones I most want to see in prison. Easily in the top 10.
This man should be arrested, then executed for crimes against humanity and treason.
This fucking ghoul needs to be among the first in handcuffs when the prosecutions start.
trump, vance, musk, miller, thiel, yarvin, navarro, vought, hegseth, leavitt, bondi, patel, noem, homan, bovino, zoley, roberts, alito, thomas.
Maybe a few key members of congress who’s loyalty to trump has been especially egregious. Anyone under oath of office who materially aided these traitorous fascists in destroying the country.
Possibly bezos, zuckerberg, cook, altman, and other complicit oligarchs. [edit: add ellison]
Who else? I’m sure there are more…
Robert and Rebekah Mercer, Harlan Crowe, David Sokol, Rupert Murdoch.
Ohhh, good ones!
Johnson.
Came here to say this - the Squeaker of the House. I’ve never seen a man who know so little about so many important topics of the day.
Ah yes, of course!
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?
Killing tyrants has a long and proven track record of success through human history.
I’d like to see them locked up myself.
Same. Most revolution overthrows a leader and instead of locking him up for good so he can’t hurt anybody, they can’t stop their mob justice and Lynch him instead. No need to kill them, just put them out to pasture.
No, the head of the snake getting crushed is what its taken for most regimes like these get stopped throughout history.
lol you’re delusional
If you wanna defend them you can join the millionaire’s march.
Sounds like someone has Luigiphobia.
Another for the execution trail list.
How is it legal to misallocate spending like this?
Everybody had that guy at there house the police are crazy I was playing games with him.
Do you have to be a ghoul to be a trump cabinet member or an agency leader? Noem? Patel? Miller? Bondi? Bessent? Hegseth? Navaro? LEAVITT?
