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President Trump and his top budget official, Russell Vought, are using their authority to inflict or spare pain where they ...
At the start of the government shutdown, President Trump posted a video that referred to Russ Vought, head of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, as the Grim Reaper. A new article in ...
On the second day of the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video set to the classic song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Öyster Cult. The star of that video, ...
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.
Senate Democrats warned OMB Director Russell Vought Tuesday that it would be illegal for the Trump administration to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, citing a recent court decision.
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 ...