In Project 2025, the conservative playbook from the Heritage Foundation, Russ Vought, an architect of the infamous document, writes that the director of the Office of Management and Budget should have “the most comprehensive approximation of the president’s mind as it pertains to the policy agenda” and that the office should be the “keeper of the commander’s intent.”
Writing in 2023, Vought describes the OMB as “the president’s air-traffic control system with the ability and charge to ensure that all policy initiatives are flying in sync,” with the authority to “let planes take off and, at times, ground planes that are flying off course.”
Though not directly addressing research funding, Vought’s vision for the office he led in the first Trump term and would eventually lead again in the second exposes the blueprint behind the OMB’s bombshell revisions to the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance released last month.
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