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Russell Vought’s Path to DESTRUCTION! Epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves writes in The Nation about Russell Vought’s new quest, laid out in his proposed rulemaking, to politicize every federal expenditure of money, from food aid to scientific research, wresting control from subject matter experts and placing it in the hands of political cronies. “If you thought Elon Musk and DOGE were bad (and they were and are responsible for the deaths of many just by dismantling USAID alone), Vought is 100 times worse,” Gonsalves writes. “This rule is codifying the work of DOGE and taking it to a whole other level.” — Talking Points Memo (TPM) 6/26/26 AM