On 1/22/2025, Trump’s pick to head the key Office of Management and Budget defended the administration’s fiscal plans with a statement almost word-for-word repeating one of Ryan’s most famous critiques of government spending.

In response to a question from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) about where he would try to cut spending, OMB director nominee Russell Vought said federal benefit programs had to be looked at.

“I think we need to go after the mandatory programs that Sen. [John] Cornyn mentioned that are keeping people out of the workforce because they have become not just a social safety net, but they have become a benefit hammock, and increasingly so in the aftermath of COVID as many of these policies were impacting people’s decisions to go back into the workforce,” Vought said.

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Kennedy: increase 2% population but 55% spending; OMB Vought: benefit hammock keep people out of workforce