In 2019, Vought was one of nine government officials who defied a subpoena to testify before Congress in relation to the Trump–Ukraine scandal and the administration's decision to freeze military aid to Ukraine. The decision to freeze aid to Ukraine had led Democrats to launch the first impeachment of Donald Trump.[15][16]
On September 4, 2020, Vought, at Trump's direction, published an OMB memo instructing federal agencies to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on "critical race theory" or "white privilege" and to identify all available avenues within the law to cancel any such contracts and/or to divert federal dollars away from these training sessions
Political and religious positions
Vought graduated from the evangelical Christian Wheaton College and describes himself as a Christian nationalist. He seeks to infuse the government and society with elements of Christianity, saying he has "a commitment to an institutional separation between church and state, but not the separation of Christianity from its influence on government and society." He advocates for what he calls "radical constitutionalism" to reverse a current "post-Constitutional time" which he asserts has been the result of decades of corruption of laws and institutions by the political left. He characterizes the federal bureaucracy as "woke and weaponized" and advocates replacing it with conservatives to wage culture wars on abortion and immigration. Vought recommends a sweeping expansion of presidential power should Donald Trump return to office, to include deploying the military for domestic law enforcement, and reviving the ability of the president to withhold congressionally-appropriated funds, a practice Congress banned in 1974. Vought proposes gutting the FBI and ending the tradition of political independence of the Justice Department.[26][27]
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