Economy / Trump’s OMB director has suggested he’ll institute mass firings and agency closures, but no one in the White House seems to grasp the economic impact of such moves. Max B. Sawicky In one of ...

Washington — Russell Vought, director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is front-and-center in government shutdown news, announcing the federal funding freezes and cuts and telling Republicans ...

Thousands of federal employees could face layoffs, with experts saying the Department of Education and other agencies could likely see cuts during the funding lapse.

President Trump said he would meet Thursday with Office and Management Budget Director Russell Vought for what he called an “unprecedented opportunity” to consider recommendations for ...

As the government shutdown entered its second day with no end in sight, President Donald Trump hinted that mass federal layoffs could start as soon as Thursday as he touted a meeting with Russell ...

Echoing Trump’s rhetoric, Vought implicitly endorsed the false claim of a stolen 2020 election and likened the media’s debunkings of that claim to Chinese Communist propaganda.

Here, from Politico, is Senate majority leader John Thune using OMB director—and newly minted persona non grata here in the shebeen—Russell Vought the same way that Michael Corleone used Clemenza.

As Washington, D.C. faces a government shutdown, President Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought, will determine which federal workers stay on the job. NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard takes a closer look ...

With the government shutdown coming into effect on Wednesday, Trump name-checked Vought, director of the office of management and budget and the man who will quickly put in motion the plan to fire ...

Washington is witnessing a dramatic power play, with Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), emerging as one of the most influential figures after former President ...

It’s day five and counting of a budget impasse in Washington, but critics say characterizing this moment as a government “shutdown” is misleading. For months, Donald Trump and his budget director ...

Thursday, President Trump posted on social media that he would meet with Russell Vought, the current head of the Office of Management and Budget, to "determine which of the Democrat agencies... he ...