Consumer Finance Protection Bureau acting director Russell Vought said the agency will not close. “The predicate to running a ‘more streamlined and efficient bureau’ is that there will continue to be ...

The operator of the payment network Zelle and the three companies that are primarily involved in the service saw the Consumer ...

The bureau’s acting director halted “race-based” activities, forbade pronouns in email signatures and equated noncompliance ...

The Trump administration is ending diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts at the Consumer Financial ...

The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, solidifying his role in shaping ...

A top Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official expressed surprise that employees had stopped performing mandatory duties ...

Hundreds of pages of communications reveal the internal chaos at agency after acting director Russell Vought ordered a total stoppage of all “work tasks.” ...

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.

That move, back in 2020, was partly the work of Russell Vought, who is once again leading the OMB. In the four years that Trump was out of power, Vought was busy establishing the framework for the ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come. Zack Beauchamp is a senior ...

The Freedom Caucus’s power is expanding beyond the halls of Congress with the appointment of Russ Vought as White House budget director. Vought, a conservative whose brass-knuckled approach to ...