Originally published at: Vought Claims OMB Won’t Try to Force Congress to Approve More Rescissions This Year — But Leaves Door Open
House Democrats grilled Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought about his refusal to release appropriated funds in a timely manner during his Tuesday morning testimony in front of the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. “Have you released all appropriated funding to each intended agency through the apportionment process?”…
Russell Vought is going to look great in jailhouse orange.
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Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) … asking about millions of dollars that have been appropriated by Congress but not released for the The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program, as well as global health and development programs.
So, Russ Vought is withholding health related payments for treating life threatening diseases.
Does that make him complicit in any resulting deaths?
Vought’s damage to public health and welfare are well-discussed, but the damage from reorienting scientific research emphasis less so. This is a problem in the AI era, with research organizations going all in on the current thing, say, quantum computing, while whacking nascent research lines and long-term development programs in mature industries such as metal extraction. The argument is that all this traditional approach, developed over centuries and less likely to promote bad ideas due to peer review, can now be tossed as the robot knows more than humans anyway. Already a year ago US scientific decline was predicted, and now that is happening. Vought and his ilk seem determined to turn the US into a regional power in the Western hemisphere. The K-shape economy would persist, massive government debt would be handled by looting public wealth, and the life experience for most people would be something akin to life in Paraguay, where average life spans are about the same as for North Korea.