Freedom Caucus gets White House bully pulpit with Russ Vought appointment
The Freedom Caucus’s power is expanding beyond the halls of Congress with the appointment of Russ Vought as White House ...
How Each Senator Voted to Confirm Russell T. Vought as Budget Chief
The Senate voted 53 to 47 to confirm Russell T. Vought — an architect of the ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda — ...
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Wheaton Tangled in Online Spat Over Trump Appointee
The decision, however, led to further backlash from conservative alumni and activists. Wheaton alumnus Eric Teetsel, chief ...
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Vought’s Transformational First Few Days at the CFPB
Within approximately 48 hours, starting on the evening of Friday, February 7, 2025, the trajectory of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...
Russell Vought, CFPB's new acting head, issues directives to halt parts of bureau activity
Trump’s DOGE, an advisory body led by Musk, has zeroed in on some agencies as part of its efforts to slash the size of ...
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, ...
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Vought orders CFPB to stop investigations and suspend new rules from taking effect
The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively ...