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'Ultra-right': Trump budget chief pick Russell Vought faces fire from Dem senators
President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget faced a tough grilling from Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday.
Democrats assail OMB director nominee Russell Vought over political, cultural issues
Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, promised to help American taxpayers while undergoing a contentious confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
Trump seeks to bring back Russell Vought as OMB director
WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump wants Russell Vought to return to the White House and serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) once again. Vought was the acting OMB director during the final two years of Trump's first administration.
Russell Vought could expand power of Trump's budget office
Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as budget director in Donald Trump's first term, has signaled he will take a more aggressive approach to helping the president-elect carry out his agenda of shrinking the federal government.
Trump’s budget pick is famous for defying Congress. GOP senators want to confirm him anyway.
It’s looking like "thumbs up" for Russ Vought in the Senate, where Republicans are preparing to confirm him to lead the White House budget office despite his reputation for withholding congressionally-approved funding.
Republicans Set Terrifying Precedent in Trump’s Budget Chief Hearing
Donald Trump’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget continued his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, but his uncanny ability to slide past tough questions—and the committee’s complicity in allowing him to do so—didn’t get past some of the Democratic lawmakers interviewing him.
We Can Stop Pretending Like Donald Trump Had Never Heard of Project 2025 Now, Right?
I commend to your attention the recent confirmation hearings of Russell Vought, the career apparatchik and key figure behind Project 2025, a veritable Vesuvius of bad and dangerous ideas whom the ...
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Trump Budget Nominee Says He’s Proud of Legislation That Doubled Extreme Poverty
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Can Trump freeze spending? OMB pick says it’ll be under ‘review.’
President Donald Trump’s pick for budget director faced another series of questions over presidential power to withhold ...
White House would have many ways to upend lives of Trump’s enemies
For the many people considered enemies by President Donald Trump, his return to the White House has sparked anxiety about how ...
Russell Vought, Brooke Rollins under Senate spotlight this week for Donald Trump’s cabinet
Senate hearings for Trump’s Cabinet nominees progress this week, with Russell Vought (OMB) and Brooke Rollins (Agriculture) ...
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Trump’s Budget Pick Grilled on What Exactly He Thinks Is “Woke”
Russell Vought, Project 2025 mastermind and Trump’s nominee for the Office of Management and Budget, had quite a testy ...
Team Trump eyes Congress’ power of the purse as part of new power grab
One of the president’s most controversial Cabinet nominees wants to shuffle the deck on core American principles, such as checks and balances.
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Trump nominee who helped write Project 2025 attacked by Senate Dems as ‘dangerous’
U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday blasted Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee to again lead the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, over his involvement in Project 2025 and called on their ...