Trump’s Budget Chief Russell Vought to Take Over DOGE After Musk’s May 2025 Exit, Eyes Permanent Cost-Cutting Overhaul, WSJ Reports

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Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, took time away from his busy schedule on Wednesday for his side gig as acting director of what’s left of the Consumer Financial ...

Who is Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought and what is his influence on Trump?

While Elon Musk has clearly been a major influence on the Trump administration, the less well known, but arguably more influential, power behind the presidency is Russell (usually Russ) Vought. Vought is the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) – the nerve centre of the administration’s sweeping changes. Vought is also rumoured to be about to take over running the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) from Musk. Unlike Musk…

Trump Taps Russ Vought to Lead DOGE, Replacing Elon Musk

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Russell Vought, the current director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), will take on a leadership role in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), succeeding billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. The transition comes as Musk, who has co-led DOGE alongside former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy since its inception, prepares to step down from his role as a special g…

Other voices: DOGE’s damage makes way for serious government reform

One way to hasten a long-delayed home renovation is to set the house on fire. Having helped torch much of the federal bureaucracy, Elon Musk says he plans to move on from his work at the Department of Government Efficiency. Here’s hoping a sounder reform of the civil service can now begin. DOGE began with much hype. It promised some $2 trillion in savings. Staffers vowed to quickly root out fraud and inefficiencies. Often wielding a chainsaw, Mu…

Jasmine Crockett calls DOGE a 'scam' and 'cover-up' to help Elon Musk profit

She accused Musk of using DOGE to fill his own pockets.

Elon Musk’s DOGE Deletes Dozens of Claims of Cost-Cutting After Investigation Reveals They Are False

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency deleted over 30 different government contracts from its website’s “Wall of Receipts” this week after a New York Times investigation found them to still be active. The Times’s David A. Fahrenthold and Jeremy Singer-Vine reported last week on what they called “DOGE’s Zombie Contracts” – federal spending Musk’s