Feb 7 (Reuters) - Russell Vought, who was confirmed by the Senate as the head of the Office of Management and Budget on Thursday, took over control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ...

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 ...

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.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau–an agency that oversees financial regulations in the U.S. States–has come to a standstill under the leadership of its new acting head, Russell Vought.

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 ...

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.