Russ Vought, tapped as CFPB's acting director, directs bureau to issue no new rules, stop new investigations
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has directed staff to not issue any new rules and to stop any new investigations.
Russell Vought takes the helm at CFPB, orders pause in agency activities
Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as he orders a pause in most of the agency's activities, and promises to cut spending.
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OMB head Russell Vought takes over as CFPB as acting head, DOGE team deletes X account
Russell Vought took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night and officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency deleted the banking ...
Russell Vought Taking Over as New Acting Head of CFPB
Trump fired the CFPB’s Biden-era leader earlier this week, putting in place Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who froze the ...
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Russ Vought Survives Democrats’ Protests, Confirmed to Lead Budget Office
Russell Vought is confirmed for OMB along party lines after sparking outrage among Democrats throughout the confirmation ...
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A Project 2025 Mastermind Now Holds the Reins of the Federal Bureaucracy
The 53-47 vote to confirm Vought came after Democrats held the Senate floor in an overnight marathon to protest the ...
Senate confirms Trump ally Russell Vought as White House budget director
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director on Thursday night, putting an official ...
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Russ Vought, champion of Schedule F and slashing agency budgets, wins confirmation to OMB
Trump's pick for budget chief was confirmed by the Senate after Democrats held the floor for a full day to speak in ...
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Russell Vought Is the Glue Between Elon Musk and Republicans
The newly confirmed co-author of Project 2025 is a quiet radical with enormous power, who can help keep DOGE and Congress in ...
Senate confirms Russ Vought as Trump’s budget director despite Democrats’ stall tactics
Vought previously served as director of the OMB during Trump’s first term. The OMB produces and oversees the president’s ...
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Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead OMB in party-line vote
Despite an overnight effort on the Senate floor from Democratic lawmakers to derail Russell Vought’s path to becoming Office ...