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From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketrowef.
This is The Daily.
Capital Hill is still closed for business as the government shutdown heads into week two.
We're six days into the government shutdown and the Trump administration is capitalizing on the moment.
Far from working to end the shutdown,
Donald Trump is using it as an excuse to ramp up his slash and burn cuts to the government.
By freezing billions of dollars in spending in cities and states run by Democrats and threatening to lay off thousands of government workers.
So who is the man who appears to have the high trust of President Trump and gets to decide which federal workers will stay and which will go?
The man at the center of that push to dismantle and reshape the American government Russell Vote.
Russell Vote.
Who is Russ Vote?
Is White House budget director Russell Vote?
Today, my colleague Coral Davenport explains how Vote,
a once obscure bureaucrat who worked on Project 2025,
became one of the most influential figures in Washington.