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 ...

In a memo, Russell Vought framed the federal government as “costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt” and declared that it is ...

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 ...

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Project 2025, a 922-page blueprint for a second Trump administration prepared by the Heritage Foundation, has been implemented by Trump’s administration, including firing 30,000 federal ...

That move, back in 2020, was partly the work of Russell Vought, who is once again leading ... The Center for Renewing America was an advisory group for Project 2025.) In 2021, Vought wrote an article ...

Russell Vought does not make that list ... is that he was one of the driving forces behind Project 2025. Exactly. [Laughs.] Trump denied on the campaign trail that Project 2025 had anything ...

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

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 ...