US EditionWhite House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House Office of Management and Budget is reallocating $15 million from the dismantled USAID to fund Russell Vought's security detail through 2026, documents show.
- This year the White House budget office is allocating US$15 million from USAID funds to cover protection for Russell Vought by the U.S. Marshals Service through the end of 2026.
- Amid reporting of threats tied to Project 2025, last week police in northern Virginia arrested a 26-year-old man for attempted murder, with media reports identifying Vought as the target.
- On Sept 11, 2025 OMB signed an agreement with USAID to cover Vought's security costs through November, with an initial $1.6 million from USAID operating expenses and $13.5 million budgeted by OMB for this year.
- With USAID dismantled last year, the allocation redirects scarce operating funds away from aid programmes as some 10,000 personnel were fired and a skeleton crew of more than 100 staff prepares to shut by September.
- OMB spokesperson Rachel Cauley said `We are going to continue to use available funds at the three agencies overseen by the director to protect him`, and the U.S. Marshals Service said it can protect officials, with Vought's security detail comprising more than one dozen U.S. Marshals.
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The Independent (US)Russell Vought gets security detail paid for with USAID cash he helped slash
Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, will reportedly be protected by the Marshals Service through the end of the year
Maybe Russ Vought Wouldn't Need The Bodyguards If He Spent This $15 Million On Food Instead
Not just any old photoshop slop, but slop with a pedigree; it appears to have originated with a 2020 tweet from equally vile rightwing shitmonger Chris Rufo (archive link). There was good news on Friday for anyone concerned that the Trump administration’s gutting of USAID that has led to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths from starvation and disease in the last year and will likely result in millions more over the rest of the decade: at…
White House using USAID funds for budget director Vought’s security | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
WASHINGTON >> The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul that has cut thousands of federal jobs, according to three documents seen
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