Jake Tapper Whiffs On OMB Director's Blatant Lies

OMB Director Russell Vought just outright lied about the massive, damaging cuts they've made in defiance of a court order to the National Institutes of Health, and Jake Tapper just sat there like a potted plant, as usual.

Vought made an appearance on this Sunday's State of the Union on CNN, and was asked by Tapper about the 14 Republican senators who are urging the White House to release the delayed NIH funds, and Vought responded by pretending they're only going after "wasteful spending" and DEI, and Tapper couldn't bother to counter him with anything more than asking why Republicans would be complaining if that's the case, rather than read him a list of specific cuts they've been making and ask him how they qualify as either "wasteful" or "DEI."

Here's the full exchange:

TAPPER: Quickly, if you could, I want to ask you about some medical research funding that the White House is withholding right now from the National Institutes of Health.

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