Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought issued a series of directives to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees Saturday night in his new capacity as the bureau's acting ...

While business groups have long lamented actions taken by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump and his allies want ...

Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought has spent his life trying to cripple the ability of the state to ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration.

Russell Vought during a Senate Budget Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, on January 22, 2025. (Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images) But if this major chaos-causing Trump move can be ...

Russell Vought, the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is halting the flow of new funding to the agency and shutting down its headquarters, the latest threat to the CFPB’s ...

The order to shutter the agency’s headquarters follows another order issued Saturday by Mr. Vought, who also leads the Office of Management and Budget, telling agency employees to halt nearly ...

Russell Vought, the Project 2025 architect who President Donald Trump tapped to be his budget chief, has also taken the helm at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to two people ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, a key architect of Project ... and a godsend to billionaires who don't pay their fair share in taxes," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director on Thursday night, putting an official who has planned the zealous expansion of President Donald Trump’s ...

In an email to CFPB staff Saturday, Russ Vought — the newly confirmed director of the Office of Management and Budget and acting head of the CFPB — directed employees not to issue any proposed ...