In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Trump nominated Stuart Levenbach as the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, using a legal maneuver to keep his budget director Russell Vought as acting ...

White House Budget Director Russell Vought announced plans to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau within 2-3 months, contradicting the administration's legal stance. However, Vought may not ...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and fellow Banking Committee Democrats have sent a letter to Acting Director of the ...

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports. Two ...

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 ...

In a recent court filing, OMB Director Russell Vought contends that the Bureau is legally barred from drawing funds from the Federal Reserve, the mechanism through which it has traditionally been ...

White House budget chief Russell Vought said Wednesday that he expects the number of federal employees laid off to get "much higher" in the coming days. Vought, who is the director of the Office of ...

The top official at the Trump administration's budget office said that the number of federal job cuts during the ongoing government shutdown could exceed 10,000; while a federal judge put the layoffs ...