As the White House budget chief, Russell Vought has tremendous power to implement Project 2025’s conservative policy agenda.

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The White House has released President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal. It seeks to slash, if not zero out, spending on ...

As federal courts unravel DOGE attacks on government, federal spending continues to rise and Congress can’t or won’t ratify ...

When Donald Trump took office in January, he was armed with a weapon none of his predecessors had enjoyed: a shadow government in waiting, ready to turn his ideas into policy. The man who built much ...

Trump issued tariffs against 86 countries, but some 75 countries negotiated down to 10%. The OMB director confirmed that "negotiations are ongoing." ...

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought assured that the team behind the trade deals between the United States and other countries is after fast results. President Donald ...

The man who built much of that infrastructure is Russell Vought, an architect of Trump ... intellectual lodestar of the revolution upending Washington.