The 53-47 vote sends Vought back to OMB, where he previously held the role of director toward the end of the first Trump administration. His confirmation also serves as a de facto green light for ...

Russell Vought took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night and officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency deleted the banking ...

The Republican-led Senate is expected to confirm a chief architect of Project 2025 as director of the Office of Management ...

Democrats held the Senate floor overnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning to protest the nomination of Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Cloture was invoked Wednesday ...

The Senate voted 53-47 along party lines on Wednesday to limit debate on Vought’s nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the face of staunch opposition from Democrats.

Russell Vought speaks to reporters during a 2019 press briefing when he was acting Office of Management and Budget director in the first Trump administration The U.S. Senate voted Feb. 6 to ...

Trump appointed Vought OMB director in 2020, after he served as deputy director in 2017 then acting director in 2019. Vought was a Senate aide before becoming executive director of the ...

In a chapter on the executive branch, Vought described OMB as the “air-traffic control system” of government, tasked to “ensure that all policy initiatives are flying in sync” and ...

Democratic senators are speaking through the night in protest of Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought’s nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon ...