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One of the key arguments presented by the NTEU, which represents many CFPB employees, and its co-plaintiffs is that acting CFPB Director Russell Vought instructed agency staff to stop all work “unless ...

President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire. Rachel Spaeth, a ...

Vought and the CFPB have so far denied that they plan to send the CFPB’s reserves to the Fed or Treasury Department. Vought announced Feb. 8 that he planned to request $0 from the Fed in the CFPB’s ...

President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Pool via AP) ...

DOGE is certainly helping to achieve — to quote the words of Project 2025 author and new director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought — the goal of putting federal workers ...

FILE - Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's choice for Director of the Office of Management and Budget, appears before the Senate Budget Committee during a hearing to examine his nomination ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s choice for Director of the Office of Management and Budget ...

There was also an adult animated spinoff titled “The Boys Presents: Diabolical” and the upcoming show “Vought Rising” starring Padalecki.

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.