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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Vought's return to the Office of Management and Budget is a green light for his radical overhaul of the federal government. By Hayes Brown The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Russell Vought as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russell Vought, the Project 2025 architect who President Donald Trump tapped to be his budget chief, has also taken the helm at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to two people ...