Russell Vought is the White House budget director, but that didn’t stop Trump from also tapping Vought to serve as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. What Patel ...

Donald Trump himself, of course, but also Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and JD Vance. Russell Vought does not make that list. The soft-spoken bureaucrat was recently confirmed to lead the ...

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 motion came in response to a lawsuit filed by the CFPB union against the Trump administration when Vought ordered workers to stop working. President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk have ...

That move, back in 2020, was partly the work of Russell Vought, who is once again leading the OMB. In the four years that Trump was out of power, Vought was busy establishing the framework for the ...

It shows how much more extreme this administration is that Zeldin and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought seemed gleeful in their statement announcing the formal reconsideration ...

“It was always about federal employees being ‘traumatically affected,’ as Russell Vought put it.” The White House did not return a request for comment. Vought was a principal author o f ...