19 hours ago · Congress. Russ Vought confirmed as White House budget chief Democrats fought the OMB nominee’s confirmation, elevating a little-known agency head to the national spotlight amid larger anxieties ...

1 day ago · Russ Vought will be White House budget director for the second time after a party-line confirmation vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.

18 hours ago · Writing in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Vought described the White House budget director’s job “as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President’s mind.”

19 hours ago · “I vote against creepy billionaire influence,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said when he cast his vote. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said on X after the vote that Vought was “an extremist ...

19 hours ago · Writing in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Vought described the White House budget director’s job “as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President’s mind.”

1 day ago · The Senate voted tonight to confirm Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's pick to run the White House Office of Management and Budget. Vought, a Project 2025 co-author, was confirmed in a party ...

19 hours ago · The 53-to-47 vote returns Mr. Vought to the White House budget office that he also led during Mr. Trump’s first term. During his tenure, he took steps to expand the number of federal employees ...

18 hours ago · The Senate voted along party lines, 53 to 47, to confirm Russell T. Vought — an architect of the ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda — to lead the White House budget office.

Russell Thurlow Vought (IPA: / voʊt / VOHT, born March 26, 1976) is an American political analyst who served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from July 2020 to January 2021. Before assuming this role, he was deputy director of the OMB for part of 2018, and served as acting director from 2019 to 2020.

19 hours ago · The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought as the next director of the powerful White House budget office, installing a conservative fiscal hawk who has promised to pursue sweeping spending ...