President-elect Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, faced questions on Capitol Hill. He was pressed about plans to exert greater power over government ...

White House budget director nominee Russell Vought, who indicated plans for major spending cuts; John Ratcliffe for head of the CIA; Sean Duffy, a climate crisis denier, for transportation ...

Yet one of the people driving it forward is anything but. It is almost easy at first to overlook Russell Vought (pronounced “vote”), with his tortoiseshell spectacles, neatly trimmed beard and ...