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… Vought grilled over DOGE ...

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.

WASHINGTON — Tense exchanges were expected between Maryland lawmakers and Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, at Wednesday’s congressional hearing. Laughter ...

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.

Elon Musk’s semi-exit from the federal government hasn’t derailed the supposed efficiency work his DOGE deployees are doing at federal agencies, a reality the White House’s top budget official said ...

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.

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The man who built much of that infrastructure is Russell Vought, an architect of Trump’s shock-and-awe second-term agenda. During the Biden years, Vought led the Center for Renewing America, ...