Vance defends DOGE and rebukes reports that there’s any tension between Musk and cabinet - President heats up trade war threatening 200 percent tariffs on European wines and champagnes if tax is upped ...

Donald Trump himself, of course, but also Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and JD Vance. Russell Vought does not make that list. The soft-spoken bureaucrat was recently confirmed to lead the ...

President Trump continued to threaten tariffs as DOGE continued its cuts of the federal workforce. It was another ...

Hundreds of pages of communications show career officials grasping for clarity in the weeks after the CFPB’s acting director, Russ Vought, ordered Feb. 10 a total stoppage of all “work tasks.” ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. Within a few hours, there were more than a thousand replies to the post, “primarily incendiary, unchristian comments about Mr ...

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.

The Freedom Caucus’s power is expanding beyond the halls of Congress with the appointment of Russ Vought as White House budget director. Vought, a conservative whose brass-knuckled approach to ...

And it reflects the influence of Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, one of several conservatives in his orbit who have called for axing independent arms of the executive branch. The theory was ...

Now at the helm of the bureau, acting director Russ Vought intends to gut the agency. Vought has already shuttered the agency headquarters. In a memo obtained first by RCP, the acting director ...