It’s hard to find a high ranking republican who shouldn’t be carted off to prison.

Hard agree.

Assuming they are his kids? One of those kids had their lives made remarkably better by a treatment for cystic fibrosis. Vought is likely behind the forced retirement of that person - Francis Collins.

I mean, it is absolutely insane how sick and gross Vought is. Imagine being that much of an ideologue, simmering with rage, that you would do this amount of destruction on something that helped your kid so very much.

https://slate.com/culture/2026/10/trump-elon-musk-doge-us-government-spending-federal-workers-blockers-michael-lewis-book.html

Collins’ story also underlines the appalling reckless of the second Trump administration’s hatchet work. Russell Vought—director of the Office of Management and Budget and fingered by Lewis as a likely suspect in Collins’ “whacking”—has a daughter with cystic fibrosis. “As he considered his child,” Lewis writes, “Vought had to know—and might have allowed himself to care—that he owed her life to Francis Collins and, more broadly, to work sponsored for fifty or more years by the National Institutes of Health.” When he got the ax, Collins asked for a pass that would allow him to continue working at his lab at the NIH (without pay), researching a disease that causes premature aging in children. He was told by a Trump flunkey named Matt Memoli that if he didn’t clear out entirely, he’d be publicly blamed for funding research at a lab in China where the COVID virus was allegedly “cooked up.”