Vought was one of the architects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for Trump’s second term.

Vought's return to the White House Office of Management and Budget, which he also helmed during Trump's first term, would put him in a role that often goes under the public radar

Russ Vought, a hard-charging fiscal and social conservative with a passion for downsizing government, became President Donald Trump’s budget director for the second time Thursday when the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed him on a party-line vote.

The Senate voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Russell Vought as White House budget director after an all-night Senate protest by Democrats who warned he was the "most dangerous nominee." Next week the Senate is set to vote on the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Robert F.

Senator Chuck Schumer called Vought the ‘most radical nominee, who has the most extreme agenda’ and now heads the ‘most important agency in Washington’