Politico5d
Vought cuts off CFPB funding, saying it’s not necessary to run the agency
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 New York Times5d
Russell Vought Orders Consumer Protection Bureau’s Headquarters Closed for a Week
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Barely two days after Russell Vought, the new acting director, ordered the agency to close its office and halt all its work, employees were in a state of deep ...
The Hill5d
Vought seeks to halt actions at CFPB
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 ...
Forbes7d
Who Is Russell Vought? Senate Confirms Trump’s Controversial OMB Director Pick—As Dems Protest
After Trump left office, Vought founded the right-wing nonprofit Center for Renewing America and was a key adviser to the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 blueprint for a second ...
Yahoo7d
Vought wants to dismantle the ‘deep state.’ As he takes office, it’s already happening.
Russell Vought takes office as President Donald Trump’s budget chief today with the goal of turning the federal bureaucracy into rubble. But his work has already started. The administration’s ...
Time7d
Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought Confirmed to Lead White House Budget Office
WASHINGTON — 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 power ...
Fox News3d
SCOOP: Trump budget chief Vought tells GOP senators $175B needed 'immediately' for border security
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's newly sworn in Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought emphasized to Republican senators the urgent need for border security funding on ...
CBS News4d
Russ Vought orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop work
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 ...
Politico7d
Russell Vought’s about to use a normally obscure role to tear down the ‘deep state’
Russell Vought takes office as President Donald Trump’s budget chief today with the goal of turning the federal bureaucracy into rubble. But his work has already started. The administration’s ...
Fox News5d
Russ Vought, tapped as CFPB's acting director, directs bureau to issue no new rules, stop new investigations
Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought is now also the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he has directed staff to not issue any new rules ...
Roll Call8d
Firebrand Vought confirmed as White House budget director
In a fiscal 2023 budget blueprint issued by the center, Vought proposed cutting nondefense discretionary programs by $3.5 trillion over a decade, trimming Medicaid by more than $2 trillion and ...
Washington Examiner4d
Federal employee union sues Vought over CFPB order to stop working
A union representing thousands of federal employees filed two lawsuits against Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought for his shuttering of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.