The Hill3d
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 ...
USA Today1d
Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget. Vought, 48, was confirmed by a vote of 53-47.
HousingWire3d
Vought shuts down most of the CFPB’s functions, cuts off funding, closes HQ
The CFPB is funded through the Federal Reserve system, not through Congress, and Vought has cut off that ... that CFPB will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is ...
Fox News3d
Russ Vought, tapped as CFPB's acting director, directs bureau to issue no new rules, stop new investigations
Vought, also a Project 2025 author, was named acting director of the CFPB on Friday. "I am honored that President Trump designated me as Acting Director of the Bureau on February 7, 2025," Vought ...
Politico5d
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 ...
Politico4d
Vought takes helm at CFPB after Musk incursion
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 ...
The New York Times5d
Senate Confirms Russell Vought as Office of Management and Budget Director
Mr. Vought emerged as one of Mr. Trump’s most contentious nominees, drawing intense backlash from Senate Democrats who described him as a lawless ideologue. They used every legislative tool at ...
Time5d
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 ...
Wall Street Journal3d
CFPB to Close Office After Vought Tells Staff to Halt All Supervision
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Roll Call5d
Firebrand Vought confirmed as White House budget director
Russ Vought, a hard-charging fiscal and social conservative with a passion for downsizing government, became President Donald Trump’s budget director for the second time Thursday when the ...
E&E6d
Senate poised to confirm Vought after all-night session
The Senate is planning to confirm Russell Vought to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget by the end of Thursday. Vought will lead the Trump administration’s work to reduce ...
PBS3d
Vought orders CFPB to stop investigations and suspend new rules from taking effect
Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB in a Saturday night email confirmed by The Associated Press to stop work on proposed rules ...