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This is great - thanks for the prompt. Could you please expand your letter template to include your post’s bullet points? They lay out so well the explicit dangers of bringing Russ Vought back into power at OMB. Here’s the letter template as I updated it:

Dear Senator,

As your constituent, I strongly urge you to vote NO on the nomination of Russ Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). His extreme positions threaten our rights, freedoms, democracy, and rule of law, posing a serious risk to our national security.

Key elements of Russ Vought's agenda include:

- Attacking Essential Programs: Vought championed Trump's budgets, proposing devastating cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—lifelines for millions of Americans.

- Risking Economic Chaos: He encouraged House Republicans to use reckless brinkmanship over the debt ceiling, threatening an economic crisis and default.

- Undermining Democracy: Vought's backing of the radical "Schedule F" plan to strip away the rights of federal employees and his handprint on Project 2025’s agenda seeks to gut federal protections and inject partisan politics into government institutions.

- Lack of Integrity: His record of withholding critical information from Congress, including during the Ukraine aid scandal, highlights a troubling disregard for transparency and accountability.

- Weaponizing Investigations: Vought and his allies have called for an "army of investigations" to prosecute perceived ideological adversaries, heightening political polarization and undermining institutional neutrality.

- Extreme Deregulation: As a lead architect of Project 2025, Vought's aggressive deregulatory blueprint threatens workers' rights, environmental protections, and the well-being of American families.

-Christian Nationalist Agenda: Vought's policy positions are deeply tied to his self-identified Christian nationalist ideology, which seeks to intertwine religion with governance and advance a far-right political agenda to replace democracy with an autocratic theocracy.

America deserves leadership grounded in unity and dedicated to the greater good—not driven by radical ideologies. Please vote NO on Russ Vought’s confirmation.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

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Great suggestion! Done!

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We must stick together these next 4 years and beyond because I do not think Trump will ever leave office until he dies!

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