Steve Bannon says Russ Vought will “take a meat axe to the administrative state” in the event of a government shutdown
Steve Bannon: “The folks on Capitol Hill are not — they're not equipped to deal with the problems. ... Russ Vought has thought this thing through for years and years and years, the folks over Heritage helped him with Project 2025.”
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From the September 25, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Prepare for Russ Vought. Russ Vought is going to get eviscerated. He'll go front and center. It's his turn in the barrel starting probably this afternoon with MSNBC, and CNN, New York Times, Washington Post — this guy's cruel, he's a Christian nationalist, he's this, he's that.
Hey, they had every opportunity to work with President Trump and now they're saying, well, the logic — last night it was Stephanie Ruhle that had this guy. Well, the logics worked against it because the president canceled me. Yo, the Democrats came up with demands that the president said there's no need to sit down. If this is what you're demanding, you can't negotiate that, and you've said you're demanding it, so no need to meet.
Remember, the fiscal part of this we still have to get our arms around. It's still, I believe, too much of a Keynesian stimulus. Because the deficit, I think on the 30th, as I've said, I thought it was two trillion. It's going to be 1.9. I think we could get to two if it's all appropriately accounted for.
You've got to deal with that. That has to be dealt with. Russ has got a plan for rescissions, pocket rescissions, impoundment. Because the folks on Capitol Hill are not — they're not equipped to deal with the problems. This is — remember the whole single subject spending bills and appropriations bills. Well, here's where we are.
The best alternative, I know this audience is wildly enthused about that, is a CR that goes to 21st of November, 21 November. That looks like that's not gonna happen. Nobody's around. They're trying to call the president's bluff, and he's gonna bring out the heavy siege guns.
He's got Russ Vought — and Russ Vought, the brother's got a plan. And this is really gonna take a meat axe to the administrative state. Russ Vought has thought this thing through for years and years and years, the folks over Heritage helped him with Project 2025. Many people worked on this.
So I kept telling you essential versus non-essential, and the lovers of big government over the Democratic Party are gonna be shocked at what's determined to be non-essential.