Employees testified that CFPB leaders and Elon Musk's DOGE want to wind down the agency to five employees, the minimum ...

The Trump administration’s demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the ...

The fiscal conservative returns to the post he held in Trump’s first administration.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought issued a series of directives to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees Saturday night in his new capacity as the bureau's acting ...

The college’s social media post about alumnus and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has led to two open letters that ...

Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) pressed President Trump’s nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over who ...

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 ...

Despite Democratic tactics to delay the vote, the Senate confirmed Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget ...

Vought was one of the architects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for Trump’s second term.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the city of Baltimore butted heads and faced skeptical questions from a federal ...