Russell Vought (clips)

We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.

When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.

We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

We want to put them in trauma.

So my belief for anyone who wants to listen is that you you have to the president has to move executively as fast and as aggressively as possible with a radical constitutional perspective to be able to dismantle that bureaucracy in their power centers.

And I think there are a couple of ways to do it.

Number one is going after the whole notion of independence.

There are no independent agencies.

Congress may have viewed them as such, SEC or the FCC, CFPB, the whole alphabet soup.

But that is not something that the Constitution understands.

So there may be different strategies with each one of them about how you dismantle them.

But as an administration, the whole notion of an independent agency should be thrown out, particularly with the Department of Justice, in which there's literally no law.

All it is is precedent from the Watergate era that the attorney general and those lawyers don't work for the president.

And who do they work for?

They think that they work for themselves.

They think that they are.

So they have the power to kill people just because they awarded themselves that power.

They have the power to kill people.

I mean, they believe that they have the power for for all of the the prosecutions and that the president doesn't get a say in any of that.

And we have to go at that as hard as we possibly can.