Russell Vought, the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is halting the flow of new funding to the agency and shutting down its headquarters, the latest threat to the CFPB’s ...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Less than 36 hours after Trump appointed Russell Vought as the consumer bureau’s acting director, he shut its operations, throwing the agency into chaos.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is quickly seeking to crack down on the activities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), preventing it from drawing down more ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget. Vought, 48, was confirmed by a vote of 53-47.

The CFPB is funded through the Federal Reserve system, not through Congress, and Vought has cut off that funding, posting this message on his X account Saturday night: “Pursuant to the Consumer ...

Russell Vought takes office as President Donald Trump ... it’s targeted to places where they think they might have a good chance of winning the case,” said James Capretta, who was associate ...

Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought is now also the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he has directed staff to not issue any new rules ...

Thune said as director of OMB, Vought will have the chance to take on "two key economic issues:" addressing "excessive spending" and cutting "burdensome government regulations," while expressing ...

saying he “will have the chance to address two key economic issues—cutting burdensome government regulations and addressing excessive spending.” Vought has often advanced a maximalist ...

saying he “will have the chance to address two key economic issues — cutting burdensome government regulations and addressing excessive spending.” Vought has often advanced a maximalist ...

Russ Vought, a hard-charging fiscal and social conservative with a passion for downsizing government, became President Donald Trump’s budget director for the second time Thursday when the ...

Mr. Vought, an architect of Project 2025 who served in the first Trump administration, will be at the center of President Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy. By Alan Rappeport ...