Reporter Andy Kroll explains Vought’s rise from a congressional staffer to the man piloting everything from Trump's layoffs and agency closings to his shutdown strategy, controlling the fate of ...

Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought said he expects 10,000 federal workers to be laid off during the ...

Russell Vought announced Friday that the Trump administration would start laying off federal employees as government shutdown ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House budget director Russell Vought said more than 10,000 government employees could be laid off ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House budget director Russell Vought said on Wednesday he wants to close the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau even though President Donald Trump's administration ...

From the daily newsletter: how Russell Vought is firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget ...

Russell Vought, President Trump's director of the powerful Office of Management and Budget, has said he wants to 'deconstruct ...

Laid-off Montgomery County resident joins other federal government workers and lawmakers calling for end of shutdown.

WSJ’s Natalie Andrews breaks down the political maneuvering between Republicans and Democrats as the government shutdown enters its second day. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse/Getty ...

The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker said Vought’s goals in the government shutdown are “cruelty” and that “is squarely in his ...