The Elon Musk era of the Trump administration’s fiscal sturm und drang is over. But his much more understated — and savvy — counterpart, Russ Vought, is just hitting his stride. Vought, the ...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought was grilled by both sides of the aisle over the administration’s sweeping cost-cutting plans as he testified before House ...

Vought faced a wide-ranging list of questions during a budget hearing, as lawmakers pressed him over President Trump’s latest spending cut requests, the Department… ...

Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, also defended his proposal to grow his own staff by 4% even as nearly every federal agency faces the prospects of drastic workforce cuts.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat, grilled Vought on a bevy of issues, including his religious views and the leadership of DOGE, as the pair repeatedly talked over each other.

Russell Vought serves as director of the Office of Management and Budget in President Donald Trump's second administration. He also served in the same position during Trump's first term ...

Russell Vought asks Congress to rubber-stamp DOGE cuts via rescissions. With Elon Musk gone, the next phase of Team Trump’s effort to gut federal programs is now underway.

The White House’s fiscal year 2026 budget includes a $45 million funding request for DOGE, accounting for 30 employees. Salaries for another 120 DOGE staffers would be reimbursable via the agencies at ...

Meet Elon Musk’s Puppet Master: Russell Vought The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.

Russell Vought, President Trump's top budget official and a leading figure behind the controversial Project 2025 agenda, is set to succeed Elon Musk as head of the Department of Government ...

Russell Vought reportedly wants to revoke prior CFPB ‘sub-regulatory’ guidance The acting CFPB director wants to review guidance and excise anything not driven by a formal regulatory process ...

During the Biden years, Vought led the Center for Renewing America, a think tank dedicated to disempowering the administrative state and laying the groundwork for Trump 2.0.