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 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 ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau–an agency that oversees financial regulations in the U.S. States–has come to a standstill under the leadership of its new acting head, Russell Vought.

Wade. Vought sees Trump as a critical ally, even if he doesn’t agree with him on a day-to-day basis or on many issues. At the very end of Trump 1.0, the Trump team began to realize this Russ ...

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 ...

(RNS) — The college’s social media post about alumnus and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has led to two ... Today, far fewer than 1 percent of the 500,000+ people who visit this site ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come. Zack Beauchamp is a senior ...

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.