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 ...
Politico5d
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 ...
USA Today5d
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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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 ...
The Hill5d
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 ...
Roll Call8d
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 ...
Yahoo7d
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 ...
Washington Examiner4d
Federal employee union sues Vought over CFPB order to stop working
One of the two suits filed aims to block DOGE employee access to the agency, while the other takes aim at Vought’s order to halt work at the agency and refuse funding for the moment. Under his ...
CBS News5d
Russ Vought orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop work
among other things. Vought wrote in the email, obtained by CBS News, that he was making the directive "as a faithful steward of the Bureau's resources" and committed to implementing Mr. Trump's ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Washington Examiner8d
Senate confirms Russ Vought as Trump’s budget director despite Democrats’ stall tactics
Vought, 48, previously served as director of the OMB during part of President Donald Trump’s first term. The OMB produces and oversees the president’s budget, among other responsibilities ...