Trump picks Project 2025 author Russell Vought to lead budget office

New Trump budget chief wrote Project 2025’s agenda for empowering the presidency

WASHINGTON — Incoming White House budget director Russ Vought has spent much of his career learning the detailed, often convoluted mechanisms that make up the Office of Management and Budget.

New Trump budget chief wrote Project 2025's agenda for empowering the presidency • Alabama Reflector

Donald Trump, at the time president of the United States, listens to then-Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russ Vought deliver remarks prior to Trump signing executive orders on Oct. 9, 2019, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)WASHINGTON — Incoming White House budget director Russ Vought has spent much of his career learning the detailed, often convoluted mechanisms that make…

Russell Vought Is Ready to Turn DOGE Into a Cruel Reality

Hayes Brown, MSNBC Russell Vought, the once and reportedly future head of the Office of Management and Budget, is poised to choke off millions of dollars in appointed funds.

Trump is nominating Project 2025 leaders to key posts

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump emphatically denied any connection to or knowledge of Project 2025, the Christian nationalist game plan for transforming the U.S. into a conservative theocracy. “I know nothing about Project 2025,” he said in a July... The post Trump is nominating Project 2025 leaders to key posts appeared first on Baptist News Global.

Trump's nomination of Project 2025 architect means Social Security, Medicare 'are at risk'

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect, to lead the White House budget office was seen as further evidence of the threat the incoming administration poses to Social Security, Medicare, and other critical government programs. Vought, who currently heads the far-right think tank Center for Renewing America think tank, served as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during Trump's first te…

Trump taps Project 2025 co-author to lead White House budget office • Source New Mexico

Russell Vought, then-acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, takes a question during a news briefing at the White House on March 11, 2019. President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he would nominate Vought to lead the office in his second administration. . (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday invited Russell Vought to once again run the White House budget office, though i…