General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVideo - Russ Vought is Destroying American Science
Last edited Mon Jun 15, 2026, 11:21 AM - Edit history (1)
If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, please watch the first 20 minutes, which is a thorough explanation of the fact this administration is totally fascist and authoritarian, and how its most effective and zealous point-person is outside of public view. Russell Vought has ruined and disempowered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and his main job as head of OMB is to break as much of the federal government as he can, and to dominate and dictate to whatever they allow to survive.
Without hyperbole, Russell Vought is the most dangerous person in this country.
ETA: if you want to make a comment to OMB in opposition, use the link below. After you make your comment, you'll be taken to a page that generates an email that will go to your members of Congress:
https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb_comment/
pat_k
(14,346 posts)Stop Vought. Save Science. - A Call To Action With Dr. Colette Delawalla, Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science.
CousinIT
(12,855 posts)1. CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER and tell them to TALK ABOUT THIS PUBLICLY and oppose it.
2. SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT. The deadline is around July 13th. You can do so anonymously.
https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001
SAMPLE comment - if you want a starting place:
US federal research funding makes scientific and medical breakthroughs possible and improves the lives of all Americans. This rule will hinder innovation and stifle growth, pushing us ever further behind other countries in scientific advancements. It's another attack on scientific integrity and scientific independence that will come at the public's expense.
Research funding should be awarded based on merit (not political loyalty); that funding shouldn't be contingent on the whims of a President and his "priorities" at the expense of innovation and the public good; and that funding shouldnt be withheld from individual researchers, organizations, and institutions because their work is associated with one of the administrations "prohibited topics."
GiqueCee
(4,973 posts)... is a malignant cancer; he is irredeemably evil right down to his DNA. He has to be stopped, and he as to be stopped NOW, by whatever means necessary. This malevolent fuck makes Trump look like a choirboy.