Donald Trump himself, of course, but also Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and JD Vance. Russell Vought does not make that list. The soft-spoken bureaucrat was recently confirmed to lead 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 ...

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.

Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of ...

With the return of Soldier Boy, fans can expect a closer look at Vought’s propaganda machine in its infancy. I’m a way, it will showcase the shaping of public perception of superheroes as all ...

Hundreds of pages of communications show career officials grasping for clarity in the weeks after the CFPB’s acting director, Russ Vought, ordered Feb. 10 a total stoppage of all “work tasks.” ...

And it reflects the influence of Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, one of several conservatives in his orbit who have called for axing independent arms of the executive branch. The theory was ...