And Trump will call it Obamacare. Trump has named the mastermind behind Project 2025, Russell Vought, his budget director. In addition to Medicaid, Vought has it in for Head Start, veterans ...

Office of Management and Budget Director and acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting Director Russell Vought Wednesday ordered ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Vought blamed the staff’s protests for the rationale behind closing the office. “Those protests involve large and disruptive ...

On Monday, Russell Vought, the Project 2025 co-author and newly confirmed head of the White House budget office, lamented the “weaponization” of consumer protection while endorsing a lending ...

“The predicate to running a ‘more streamlined and efficient bureau’ is that there will continue to be a CFPB,” consumer bureau Acting Director Russ Vought said in a motion filed late ...

In his latest effort to take down two of the government’s smallest aid agencies, U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Project 2025 architect Russell Vought — and current head of the ...