House Speaker Mike Johnson wants us to believe OMB Director Russ Vought isn't salivating at the chance to punish people in blue states that Trump believes are all his political enemies during this shutdown. Sadly for him, Sen. Mike Lee made it obvious that isn't the case.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes did a great job of laying it all out this Thursday:

HAYES: You're not hearing any empathy for regular folks from the White House. This administration is salivating at the opportunity to punish people. Specifically, they want to punish people in blue states who didn't vote for Trump.

Russell Vought doesn't pretend like this is anything but exactly the plan that he wrote in Project 2025. He gleefully posted this week "Nearly eight billion dollars in Green New Scam funding to fuel the left climate agen

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