During their protest of Russell Vought’s confirmation, Senate Democrats sounded the alarm about Vought’s role in drafting Project 2025 and his support for vastly expanding the power of the president.

Vought, said Wisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin at 10:30 pm eastern time on Wednesday, “has openly called for the president to defy congress and take control of federal funding decisions that are constitutionally vested in the legislative branch.”

Schiff accused the Trump administration of unlawfully attempting to break down the separation of powers and said Vought would play a role in aiding that effort.

“This is an effort to try to consolidate power, all the power of this government, in the hands of Donald Trump and a few of his hand-picked very wealthy, billionaire friends,” said California Democrat Adam Schiff.

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    People were sounding alarms long before the clueless democrats were, but democrats insisted on “reaching across the aisle” for decades, including in the most recent election where they reached right into dick cheney’s pants. Democrats want to appear like they’re doing something and that they’d absolutely totally would do something if they’d just win the election, and yet they never actually do anything to stop the decline (or, more importantly, reverse the decline) even when they do win.