Russ Vought faces questioning during his confirmation about him wanting to make some federal employees more accountable to the president than to the bureaucracy.
If confirmed, Mr. Vought will be at the center of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.
Many of Trump's picks for top jobs in his next administration have not worked at the highest levels of government or in the private sector.
President-elect Donald Trump is working ... more Prosperous than ever before,” Trump said in a statement. Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget Director Vought, who previously led ...
Donald Trump jumped to claim credit for brokering the ceasefire moments after it was announced on Wednesday, despite the fact that he was not in office for the duration of the conflict. But his instinct may not be far off: A diplomat briefed on the negotiations credited their sudden progress to the incoming forty-seventh president, reported
President-elect Donald J. Trump, over the course of the 2024 campaign and after his election, made big promises to the American people on everything from the economy to foreign policy. Here’s what he said he would do with a second term.
Trump announced Stephen Miller as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, plus the additional role of homeland security adviser. Miller was a senior adviser to Trump during his first administration and one of the architects of some of his most controversial immigration policies, including his family separation program.
If confirmed again as White House budget director, Russell Vought would likely do more than oversee spending, policy and regulations. Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as budget director in Donald Trump's first term,
Russell Vought, Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget nominee, wouldn't talk Project 2025 or Schedule F or impoundment during his Senate confirmation.
While Biden tactfully communicated a fundamental truth and core party principle that’s been often overlooked, many felt that Biden delivering the message in the last gasps of his presidency was emblematic of his time in office: far too little, far too late.
President-elect Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, faced questions on Capitol Hill. He was pressed about plans to exert greater power over government agencies and shrinking spending.