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.

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 ...

The excellent work on “Dune: Part Two” claimed the VFX Oscar on Sunday, while also leaving a lingering question of why the movies in the rebooted “Planet of the Apes” franchise have also ...

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 ...

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 open letters that reveal competing interpretations of Christian values.

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.

That move, back in 2020, was partly the work of Russell Vought, who is once again leading the OMB. In the four years that Trump was out of power, Vought was busy establishing the framework for the ...

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. Vought ...