President Donald Trump has tapped another Office of Management and Budget official to head a consumer protection agency the administration is trying to wind down, but the administration indicated ...

The White House has nominated Stuart Levenbach, a senior official at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). An official told ...

Even budget hawks have a sensitive side. White House budget director Russ Vought — whom President Trump recently depicted as ...

Critics say it’s the latest move in his plan to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and protect CEOs.

President Trump offered these comments on the "reckless and completely unnecessary" 2025 government shutdown and praised OMB Director Russ Vought as the "Darth Vader" of budget cuts. "They call him ...

President Trump has nominated Stuart Levenbach to serve as permanent director of the CFPB. Levenbach is an Office of Management and Budget official and aide to OMB Director, and current CFPB Acting ...

Trump followed up his statement with praise for Vought and pointed out that critics call him Darth Vader: "They call him ...

Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director, outside the West Wing of the White House, September 29, 2025, in Washington. Credit: Evan Vucci/AP Photo A legal office in the White House, at ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Russell Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as a platform policy director for the Republican National Committee, as his pick to lead the Office ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may have hired teenagers earlier this year in a misguided effort to make the federal government more efficient, but it’s 49-year-old Russ Vought who might really ...

We look at the influence of Trump’s top budget adviser and the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, over the Trump administration’s policies and Trump himself. Vought is “the driving force ...