The White House budget office reportedly set aside $15 million of remaining funds to protect Vought through 2026, according ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work….

A federal judge cut right to the chase on Tuesday, using Russell "Russ" Vought's words against him while seeing through his reliance on a DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo as a way to "starve" ...

In discussing the White House budget chief’s plans for massive federal worker cuts during the government shutdown, a contributor to the Friday show Washington Week with the Atlantic turned a joking ...

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Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director, outside the West Wing of the White House, September 29, 2025, in Washington. Credit: Evan Vucci/AP Photo A legal office in the White House, at ...

This article is a collaboration between The New Yorker and ProPublica. On the afternoon of February 12th, Russell Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, summoned a ...

Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government. Russell Vought has been “dreaming” of a government shutdown “since ...

Even budget hawks have a sensitive side. White House budget director Russ Vought — whom President Trump recently depicted as the Grim Reaper relentlessly slashing government headcount — was snapped ...

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work…. We want to put them in trauma.” —Russell Vought, May 2023 “[The Center ...