A U.S. district judge has blocked the layoffs of federal workers after Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said the administration may lay off more than 10,000. Staff Writer at The ...

White House Budget Director Russell Vought announced plans to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau within 2-3 months, contradicting the administration's legal stance. However, Vought may not ...

White House budget chief Russell Vought said Wednesday that he expects the number of federal employees laid off to get "much higher" in the coming days. Vought, who is the director of the Office of ...

Days into the 2025 shutdown that brought the federal government to a halt, President Donald Trump reposted an AI-generated music video set to the tune of Blue Öyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” ...

In a New Yorker article co-published with ProPublica, reporter Andy Kroll describes Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, as a "shadow president" with oversized influence.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and fellow Banking Committee Democrats have sent a letter to Acting Director of the ...

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 ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Days into the 2025 shutdown that brought the federal ...