Former Rep. Dan Bishop testified Wednesday about his nomination by President Donald Trump and was asked about his commitment ...

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A top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) gave an inside account of the “chaos” and “confusion” that overtook the agency when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ...

About two weeks after the new administration was sworn in, Becky Coleman got an email. It said to stop all work. Becky says that’s not totally abnormal with a new presidency.

Hundreds of pages of communications reveal the internal chaos at agency after acting director Russell Vought ordered a total stoppage of all “work tasks.” ...

In President Donald Trump’s first term, Russell Vought was a largely behind-the-scenes player who eventually became director of the influential but underappreciated Office of Management and Budget.

That move, back in 2020, was partly the work of Russell Vought, who is once again leading the OMB. In the four years that Trump was out of power, Vought was busy establishing the framework for the ...

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is quickly seeking to crack down on the activities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), preventing it from drawing down more ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the city of Baltimore butted heads and faced skeptical questions from a federal ...

A federal judge wants to hear directly from one of the top officials at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to learn if ...

One of Acting Director Russell Vought's first actions was to pull the plug on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's landing page. Other pages on the agency's website were working. Russell Vought, ...

Donald Trump himself, of course, but also Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and JD Vance. Russell Vought does not make that list. The soft-spoken bureaucrat was recently confirmed to lead the ...