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 ...
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 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 ...
Trump’s shutdown architect: Russ Vought’s plan to deconstruct the government was years in the making
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 ...
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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 ...
Host Jeffrey Goldberg played Lee telling Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, “Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment, preparing this moment, since puberty. Russ Vought has a plan, ...
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