Project 2025 contributing author Russell Vought is slated to resume his former role as Office of Management and Budget director following Senate approval Wednesday afternoon. Vought, 48 ...

Russell Vought, a longtime budget hawk and Washington ... essentially representing two sides of the same coin. Musk is a big-picture thinker; Vought an in-the-weeds technocrat.

In Vought’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee on Jan. 22, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that since 2019, the U.S. population has grown 2%, while spending has grown 55% ...

In President Donald Trump’s first term, Russell Vought was a largely behind-the-scenes player who eventually became director of the influential but underappreciated Office of Management and Budget.

Democrats spent Wednesday night into Thursday morning holding the Senate floor, giving speech after speech to oppose Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Office of ...

Russell Vought, the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is halting the flow of new funding to the agency and shutting down its headquarters, the latest threat to the CFPB’s ...

Consumer Finance Protection Bureau acting director Russell Vought said the agency will not close. “The predicate to running a ‘more streamlined and efficient bureau’ is that there will con ...