In his role as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government.

Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administration.

This lawlessness harms all of us, because:

• Big corporations are getting away with cheating consumers.
• We are funding fewer cures for cancer with the same amount of money.
• Our communities get less help to recover from disasters.
• Russell Vought is lawlessly slashing all of these programs and so many more.

We are current and former federal workers from across the government. We have witnessed first-hand the harm Vought has inflicted on American communities. We are urging Congress to act now to protect the American people by impeaching and convicting Russell Vought. We invite all Americans to join us by signing on to our letter to Congress. You can read the full letter below.

Learn more about why Congress must impeach Vought, the harm he has caused and will continue to inflict, and other allies' efforts who know that Vought has got to go!

Read the full letter:

Dear Senators and Representatives,

We, the undersigned, including current and former federal workers from across the government and across the nation, urge you to impeach and convict Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought for high crimes and misdemeanors and remove him from all positions of the executive branch. Allowing Vought to continue abusing, purging, and corrupting our nation's government and the programs that serve the American people sends a clear message that Congress no longer respects the rule of law nor cares to preserve its own authority, and has abandoned our nation’s system of checks and balances. We call on you to act quickly to stop the dismantling of our government and restore constitutional order.

Russell Vought has violated his constitutional authority, broken his oath, and abused the powers of his office. He has repeatedly and willfully:

1. Violated the Impoundment Control Act
2. Obstructed congressional oversight and concealed spending decisions
3. Unlawfully dismantled congressionally established agencies
4. Abused his power and undermined the rule of law

Specific cases of harm include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Withholding over $410 billion in congressionally appropriated funding across multiple federal agencies and programs.
• Freezing $5 billion in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act
• Declaring his intention to violate the law, including repeatedly stating that he believes the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional while simultaneously serving in an office charged with implementing that law
• Creating and implementing a strategy of "programmatic delays" designed to create impoundment and recissions as well as preventing agencies from spending funds as Congress directed.
• Removing the apportionment website from public view in direct violation of statutory requirements
• Defying congressional mandates requiring transparency in federal spending decisions
• Directing the closure of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), dramatically reducing USAID staffing, and issuing stop-work orders to USAID staff and placing employees on administrative leave
• Assuming the role of Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and immediately directing the bureau to halt virtually all work, attempting to fire nearly all staff, rolling back regulations and dismissing settled cases to the tune of billions lost for consumers - including $80 million owed to defrauded service members and their families, manufacturing a funding crisis in violation of the Dodd-Frank Act, while wasting millions of dollars on personal bodyguards.
• Directing massive budget cuts to the Department of Education and advocating for its elimination, orchestrating the dismantling of its key offices, and withholding its funding appropriated by Congress
• Refusing to comply with court orders in a timely manner
• Coordinating with non-governmental actors to dismantle federal agencies, including granting Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive government information and systems
• Implementing systematic efforts to punish political opponents by withholding funding from programs and states based on political considerations rather than legal criteria
• Defunding federal watchdog oversight, including: the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, which supported the operations of more than 70 Inspectors General (IG) across the federal government, hosted a repository for tens of thousands of reports with IG findings on waste and fraud, and supported more than two dozen other IG websites that provided whistleblower resources.
• Threatening federal employees, stating his intent to "traumatize" civil servants and describing career federal workers as "villains," while simultaneously implementing mass terminations and reductions in force

Members of Congress: obey your oath and exercise your Constitutional authority

Russell Vought isn’t just engaging in politics; he is dismantling our government. Although lower courts have declared his actions flatly illegal, the Supreme Court has consistently intervened to stay these rulings to enable the lawlessness. Our system of checks and balances is failing, and Congress must reassert itself as a coequal branch of government. They must use their constitutional power to impeach and remove Russell Vought from all positions of the executive branch before his actions irreparably harm the republic.

Our Commitment as Civil Servants

Federal workers are on the front lines and witnessing first-hand the systematic dismantling of the governmental agencies and programs that serve the American public. We are the workers who track extreme weather events, respond to natural disasters, protect communities from devastating forest fires, safeguard our food and water supply, ensure we have clean air and access to natural resources, track deadly epidemics, mediate foreign diplomacy worldwide, keep workplaces safe, and deliver new cures. Our oath of office leaves us no choice but to blow the whistle on Vought's reckless and lawless mismanagement, which is endangering the American public.

We as federal employees attest that we have signed this letter in our personal capacity, on personal time, and using personal equipment. Many have signed anonymously because we no longer have confidence that our legal rights as civil servants will be upheld. Many more support the ideas expressed in this letter but fear retaliation for signing, even anonymously, after our Department of Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Institutes of Health and United States Agency for International Development colleagues have been punished for courageously raising alarms about Vought's illegal actions. The First Amendment protects our rights as civil servants to speak out truthfully on matters of public interest without government retaliation (confirmed by an 8-to-1 Supreme Court decision in Pickering v Board). That many of us fear exercising these free speech rights underscores the constitutional crisis at hand.

We have invited members of the American public to sign alongside us, as we will continue raising the alarm and upholding our oath of office to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Respectfully,

Current and Former Federal Workers and our allies, representing federal agencies including:

• AmeriCorps
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Commerce/National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Department of Defense
• Department of Education
• Department of Energy
• Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Children and Families
• Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  
• Department of Health and Human Services/Food and Drug Administration
  
• Department of Health and Human Services/Indian Health Service
• Department of Health and Human Services/National Institutes of Health
• Department of Health and Human Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Department of the Interior/National Park Service
• Department of the Interior/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Department of Justice
• Department of State
• Department of the Treasury/Internal Revenue Service
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Federal Election Commission
• General Services Administration
• Presido Trust
• Social Security Administration
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• United States Agency for International Development
• United States Postal Service

Disclaimer: While Science and Freedom Alliance is hosting this action, this action is done so in partnership with current civil servants and doesn't represent ownership of this action.

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