Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work….

Trump followed up his statement with praise for Vought and pointed out that critics call him Darth Vader: "They call him Darth Vader. I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and ...

Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a federal ...

A federal judge cut right to the chase on Tuesday, using Russell "Russ" Vought's words against him while seeing through his reliance on a DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo as a way to "starve" ...

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work…. We want to put them in trauma.” —Russell Vought, May 2023 “[The Center ...

U.S. President Donald Trump called Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, "Darth Vader" in an October 2025 speech. Trump followed up his statement with praise for Vought and ...