It’s taken just a few weeks in office, but the Trump administration’s apparent vision for economic populism is coming into focus: a blueprint for mass layoffs, creeping inflation, and a dissolution of ...

Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee ... part of Trump's first term in office and had a hand in crafting Project 2025, a controversial policy document written by the Heritage ...

The Trump administration’s demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move.

The nominations come days after the Department of Government Efficiency tried to take over both federal aid agencies.

When Project 2025 went viral last summer, it wasn’t just because of the extreme policy stances it embraced. After all, things like rejection of abortion rights, cruelty toward the poor, and ...

The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, solidifying his role in shaping ...

The turnabout spawned a flood of condemnation from conservative groups and political activists loyal to Trump.

Vought was confirmed on a party-line vote of 53-47 after Democrats warned he was Trump's "most dangerous nominee." ...

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In President Donald Trump’s first term, Russell Vought was a largely ... in America is at stake,” he wrote in Project 2025. That tracks with what Vought said before Trump again nominated ...