Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Russell Vought told agency employees on Monday not to come into work or perform any work tasks—a dismal sign for the bureau that has been ...

The Freedom Caucus’s power is expanding beyond the halls of Congress with the appointment of Russ Vought as White House budget director. Vought, a conservative whose brass-knuckled approach to ...

(RNS) — The college’s social media post about alumnus and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has led to two open letters that reveal competing interpretations of Christian values.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau–an agency that oversees financial regulations in the U.S. States–has come to a standstill under the leadership of its new acting head, Russell Vought.

Donald Trump himself, of course, but also Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and JD Vance. Russell Vought does not make that list. The soft-spoken bureaucrat was recently confirmed to lead the ...

In President Donald Trump’s first term, Russell Vought was a largely behind-the-scenes player who eventually became director of the influential but underappreciated Office of Management and Budget.

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come. Zack Beauchamp is a senior ...