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AI Summary
- Reporter Andy Kroll describes Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, as a 'shadow president' with outsized influence over the administration
- Kroll argues that chaos serves as both a goal and outcome of Vought's agenda to destabilize the federal bureaucracy and crack the typically stable institution
- The article co-published with ProPublica examines how the administration dismantles government institutions strategically