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Trump: Meeting Set To Axe ‘Democrat Agencies’
Daily Wire ^ | Oct 2, 2025 | Leif Le Mahieu

Posted on 10/02/2025 10:13:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would hold discussions on which “Democrat Agencies” should be cut amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Trump said he will meet with Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, who oversees the allocation of federal funds. The shutdown started on Wednesday after the Senate failed to pass a temporary government funding bill backed by Republicans.

“I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

The meeting follows Trump’s call Wednesday night for Republicans to take advantage of the shutdown as an opportunity “to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud. Billions of Dollars can be saved.”

Vought has already moved to suspend or cancel billions of dollars of federal funding following the shutdown. He announced Tuesday that nearly $8 billion in “Green New Scam” funding spent on “the Left’s climate agenda” was being cancelled. 

The terminated projects were mainly in blue states like California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.

Following Vought’s announcement, the Department of Energy said that it had terminated 321 financial awards worth $7.65 billion supporting 223 projects. The department said the projects were not economically viable, did not advance the nation’s energy needs, and would not yield a positive return on taxpayer investment.

“On day one, the Energy Department began...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; cuts; democrats; shutdown
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1 posted on 10/02/2025 10:13:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is this what winning looks like?


2 posted on 10/02/2025 10:17:38 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Asking questions is your right.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m an aging boomer and I’ve been waiting a lifetime for this opportunity.

The Big Government Utopia of the 1960s hippies is finally facing its Day of Reckoning….


3 posted on 10/02/2025 10:19:10 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cut, baby, cut!


4 posted on 10/02/2025 10:19:36 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pelosi reduced to a presser in a noisy hospital cafeteria.


5 posted on 10/02/2025 10:21:55 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I voted for this


6 posted on 10/02/2025 10:21:56 AM PDT by Jeff Vader
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Winning


7 posted on 10/02/2025 10:24:21 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Big Government Sucks” - Charlie Kirk


8 posted on 10/02/2025 10:25:22 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Starboard

Cut, baby, cut!


Democrat inferno
Cut, baby, cut
Cut the muthas down


9 posted on 10/02/2025 10:25:25 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Start with the Department of Redundancy Department.

((Old gag from the comedy albums of The Firesign Theater ensemble group.))

Another: The car raced up toward him and skidded to stop on a dime. But the dime was in his pocket.


10 posted on 10/02/2025 10:27:21 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Target: the Global Criminal Syndicate.


11 posted on 10/02/2025 10:29:41 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Dems are counting on activist federal judges to delay this until they can get better terms. I don’t think it’s going to work.


12 posted on 10/02/2025 10:31:12 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Excellent! The more axed, the better!


13 posted on 10/02/2025 10:40:47 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("Break free from the temptations and shackles of this world." Erika Kirk, September 21, 2025)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DOGE was just the appetizer.

Time to get to the meat and potatoes.


14 posted on 10/02/2025 10:42:38 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!””

Excellent trolling. LoL.


15 posted on 10/02/2025 11:11:48 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What was he going to axe them?


16 posted on 10/02/2025 11:16:56 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Start with eliminating unconstitutional bureaus.
(Aeeeeeeteeeeef, EPA excepting multi - state projects, education (a highly remunerative WPA for unemployed educraps), and several of the essentially redundant security whence like teeeessssaaa). Shutter the bureaus that are ridden by corruption (effffbeeeaye, etc).
Chop most legit bureaus by at least 20 percent (allowing for exceptions in a proven needs basis).


17 posted on 10/02/2025 11:29:51 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Money laundering operations hit hardest.


18 posted on 10/02/2025 11:57:53 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: faithhopecharity

“Start with eliminating unconstitutional bureaus.”

We may not like them but they are not unconstitutional if Congress voted to approve them. Be careful what you wish for because if you are looking to axe anything not originally Constitutionally mentioned, then unless you are a hypocrite, you would have to get rid of things like the Border Patrol which is mentioned nowhere in the Constitution and did not even exist until 1924.


19 posted on 10/02/2025 12:02:20 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.a)
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To: Thapsus_epiphany

+1 from this Boomer.


20 posted on 10/02/2025 12:27:10 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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