Trump seeks to bring back Russell Vought

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WATCH LIVE: Russell Vought testifies at confirmation hearing for OMB director
Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, will testify before Congress for the second time. Since the first, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) met with Vought and released a statement disagreeing with the nomination.
Trump seeks to bring back Russell Vought as OMB director
Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, poses for a photo with Cabinet picks, other nominees and appointments, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Russell Vought could expand power of Trump's budget office
After Trump's defeat, Vought founded the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank. In speeches he made in 2023 and 2024, Vought described how he helped create legal justifications to prevent military leaders and government lawyers from obstructing Trump's executive actions, ProPublica reported.
Trump budget nominee Russell Vought says presidents can withhold authorized spending
Donald Trump's choice to oversee the federal budget, Russell Vought, defended the U.S. president-elect's goal of cutting spending by refusing to spend money that Congress has already authorized at a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
Vought nomination signals bruising spending wars under Trump
The Senate’s confirmation hearing of Russell Vought, one of Washington’s staunchest advocates for cutting spending, offered a preview Wednesday of the bruising spending wars likely to consume
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Vought was OMB director during Trump’s first term. He already had a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Sen. Padilla presses Russell Vought about politicizing disaster relief funds
Calif., questioned Russell Vought, President Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, about whether or ...
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Russell Vought grilled on Project 2025 and ‘breaking the law’ during Senate hearing
Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget, faced ...
Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees Russell Vought, Brooke Rollins under the Senate spotlight this week
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Vought distances himself from past statements about government shutdowns
Russell Vought, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, downplayed his past comments about the ...
Russell Vought Poised to Expand Power of White House Budget Office
If confirmed, Mr. Vought will be at the center of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.
Opinion: Susan Collins should oppose Russell Vought
If confirmed to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Vought would wreak havoc on clean energy investments.
Democrats grill Project 2025 co-author over ‘illegal’ Trump funding move
Democrats on Wednesday grilled Office of Management and Budget (OMB) nominee Russell Vought over recent executive orders made ...