Security Questions Swirl After Musk Team Views Treasury Data
A federal judge agreed with widespread security concerns surrounding Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team’s access to Treasury payment an ...
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Vought cuts off CFPB funding, saying it’s not necessary to run the agency
In the email, Vought said the regulator — which oversees banks, payment firms and other financial institutions — should cease all supervision activity. The CFPB has dedicated examination teams ...
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Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget
At the time, Vought proposed billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid and other reductions for the Education Department, Interior Department and U.S. Agency for International Development ...
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Vought seeks to halt actions at CFPB
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 ...
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Vought shuts down most of the CFPB’s functions, cuts off funding, closes HQ
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 ...
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Vought wants to dismantle the ‘deep state.’ As he takes office, it’s already happening.
Former OMB officials, including from other administrations, said the clunky move seemed unlike Vought, who is known as a strategic, in-the-weeds thinker and who they expect to build a more ...
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Russell Vought’s about to use a normally obscure role to tear down the ‘deep state’
Vought became OMB director in 2020. | Evan Vucci/AP Former OMB officials, including from other administrations, said the clunky move seemed unlike Vought, who is known as a strategic, in-the-weeds ...
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Russ Vought, tapped as CFPB's acting director, directs bureau to issue no new rules, stop new investigations
Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought is now also the acting director ... contractors and other CFPB personnel "unless expressly approved by the Acting Director or required ...
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Firebrand Vought confirmed as White House budget director
among other reductions. In a statement after the vote Thursday, Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called Vought “highly qualified,” having served in the same capacity during the ...
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Trump administration halts work at fraud-fighting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
WASHINGTON – Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer ... all employees, contractors and other personnel of the bureau shall … cease all supervision and examination activity." ...
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Senate poised to confirm Vought after all-night session
“He is far and away the most dangerous to the American people,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) about Vought in comparison to other nominees. “He is the most important ...