Russ Vought, a critical race theory (CRT) opponent who led the White House Office of Management and Budget under Trump, told The Epoch Times on Thursday that the amount of spending in President Joe Biden’s proposed 2023 budget is “atrocious.” Vought, who currently heads the anti-CRT organization Center for Renewing America, made the comments at an emergency foreign policy conference, “Up from Chaos: Conserving American Security,” organized by American Moment and The American Conservative. Vought also spoke about the disconnect between the views that got Trump elected and decision-making in the Trump White House as part of a conference panel, “Rotten Branches: How Congress, The Military, and Executive Bureaucracy Fail Our Foreign Policy.” He said the policy process was “completely disconnected from the views of the President,” prioritizing defenders of the status quo and avoiding what he described as “paradigm-shifting questions,” including on decades of U.S. military spending: “Why are …