The mastermind of President Donald Trump’s effort to downsize the federal workforce, Russ Vought, promised to use the government shutdown to advance his goal of “shuttering the bureaucracy.” Presented ...

President Donald Trump’s budget director spent his “years of exile” planning cuts to the federal bureaucracy. A video that leaked publicly last fall revealed former Trump budget director Russ Vought ...

President Donald Trump's fiscal shake-up is in full swing, and Russell Vought, the new Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is taking charge with a mandate to slash government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may have hired teenagers earlier this year in a misguided effort to make the federal ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will immediately pause over $11 billion in projects due to the government shutdown, Trump administration budget chief Russell Vought said. The paused funds pertain to ...

Russ Vought’s CFPB has been busier over the past two weeks, but not because of increased enforcement or supervision efforts. Instead, recent actions indicate that the administration intends to keep ...

As the government shutdown heads into its third full week, the Trump administration is halting billions worth of infrastructure funding. It’s the latest of Office of Management and Budget Director ...

Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a federal ...

It was Russ Vought who huddled with House Republicans on the first day of the government shutdown to tell them that mass layoffs of federal workers would begin in "a day or two." Vought, director of ...

The Trump administration memo that landed in federal agency in-boxes last week wasn’t subtle. As Washington careened toward a government shutdown, there would be nothing normal about the agency ...

The Trump administration could slash more than 10,000 federal jobs during the government shutdown, White House budget director Russell Vought said. The White House has already issued layoff ...

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