President Donald Trump has tapped another Office of Management and Budget official to head a consumer protection agency the ...

Even budget hawks have a sensitive side. White House budget director Russ Vought — whom President Trump recently depicted as ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Russell Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as a platform policy director for the Republican National Committee, as his pick to lead the Office ...

Trump followed up his statement with praise for Vought and pointed out that critics call him Darth Vader: "They call him ...

President Trump offered these comments on the "reckless and completely unnecessary" 2025 government shutdown and praised OMB Director Russ Vought as the "Darth Vader" of budget cuts. "They call him ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may have hired teenagers earlier this year in a misguided effort to make the federal government more efficient, but it’s 49-year-old Russ Vought who might really ...

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As the government shutdown heads into its third full week, the Trump administration is halting billions worth of infrastructure funding. It’s the latest of Office of Management and Budget Director ...

Russ Vought’s CFPB has been busier over the past two weeks, but not because of increased enforcement or supervision efforts. Instead, recent ...