According to Larry Kudlow, writing in The New York Sun, Democrats have given OMB Director Russ Vought an opportunity to cut mass waste in the government. He writes:

Russ is unencumbered by institutional restraints. By that, I mean he’s never served as a senator or a House member.

He was the OMB director in the first term, when we worked together and became good friends. But that experience just sharpened his instincts and knowledge.

I don’t know how many federal employees he will fire during this shutdown, or how many programs he will eliminate — but there are hundreds of unnecessary programs and, by one account, something like 800,000 unnecessary employees could now be on Russ Vought’s chopping block.

If the government admits that hundreds of thousands of government employees are “nonessential” during a shutdown — well, then let’s admit they’re permanently nonessential once the shutdown ends, as well.

Some 300,000 federal workers are already leaving voluntarily with generous severance pay and buyouts.

So it’s possible the federal government could be a million employees smaller than when President Trump was inaugurated.

And that brings me to another key point — Russ Vought believes in executive power. That means the President.

And I totally agree.

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