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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We look at the influence of Trump’s top budget adviser and the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, over the Trump administration’s policies and Trump himself. Vought is “the driving force ...

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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 ...

President Donald Trump has vowed to use the levers of federal power to punish blue states and Democratic lawmakers who have defied him. On Truth Social, the president announced he was meeting with ...

The Senate has paved the way for Russell Vought to remain acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by allowing the nomination of a permanent director to lapse. Under Senate rules, ...

This article is a collaboration between The New Yorker and ProPublica. On the afternoon of February 12th, Russell Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, summoned a ...