Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has canceled, or threatened to cancel, billions of dollars of previously approved ...

We look at the influence of Trump’s top budget adviser and the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, over the Trump ...

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

As the government shutdown stretches into a fourth week, lawmakers are no closer to ending it. The Senate blocked three bills ...

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 ...

The federal government shutdown rolled on to Day 10 on Friday as Donald Trump and congressional Republicans and Democrats ...

President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Days into the 2025 shutdown that brought the federal ...

This article is a collaboration between The New Yorker and ProPublica. On the afternoon of February 12th, Russell Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, summoned a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making this ... “Every authoritarian leader has had his grim reaper. Russell Vought is Donald Trump’s,” said Rep. Steny Hoyer, the senior Democrat from ...

President Donald Trump‘s administration announced Friday afternoon that the long-threatened reduction-in-force notices to furloughed federal workers, in response to the government shutdown, have ...