Roll Call Vote 37: Confirmation of Russell Vought

United States Senate2025-02-06

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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Trump's 90-day foreign-aid freeze stopped active health and relief programs · Stop-work orders took effect while waiver rules remained slow and inconsistent
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Treasury's top career official resigned after resisting DOGE payment-system access · David Lebryk retired after more than 30 years of federal service
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Treasury granted DOGE access to the federal payment system · Treasury described the initial access as read-only
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After Trump nominated Russell Vought to lead OMB in January 2025, the Senate confirmed him on February 6, and the White House continued to list him as the 44th OMB director on September 3, 2026.
Senate confirms Vought to lead Trump's OMB again · OMB director as of September 3, 2026
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A Treasury threat assessment designated DOGE staff an insider-risk concern · Treasury security teams circulated the insider-threat assessment
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Vought ordered CFPB staff to stop nearly all supervisory and enforcement work · Courts later restricted implementation of the shutdown and mass-layoff plan
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A federal judge kept DOGE barred from Treasury payment records · Temporary access restrictions remained in force pending a hearing
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
CFPB agreed to reimburse DOGE for as many as five full-time staff · The signed agreement authorized reimbursement for up to five full-time equivalents through July 4, 2026
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE sought access to individual taxpayer records at the IRS · DOGE agreed initially to use anonymized data amid internal resistance
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Nuclear-security dismissals were hurriedly reversed after safety warnings · NNSA attempted to recall dismissed staff after the initial terminations
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE funding rose to nearly $40 million while its spending remained shielded · OMB records showed nearly $40 million available to DOGE
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
USDA layoffs disrupted bird-flu vaccine testing during an active outbreak · Ames laboratories reported research delays and animal-care gaps
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE gained access to confidential housing-discrimination and domestic-violence files · HUD publicly disputed the report after officials said access had been granted
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
CFPB dropped its Capital One savings-account investigation under Vought · The bureau dismissed the enforcement matter
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE marked VA cancer-registry support for immediate termination · VA pursued a national replacement after local officials warned of oncology tracking failures
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
CFPB abandoned its Rocket Homes kickback case · CFPB voluntarily dismissed the case
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Labor Department agreement carried a $1.3 million DOGE fee · The published agreement authorized a $1.3 million interagency payment and system-by-system notice
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE lowered purchase-card limits to $1 across 14 agencies · Agencies used waivers and manual workarounds to restore routine purchases
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A judge ruled the administration could not indefinitely withhold congressionally funded aid · Court ordered the government to process overdue foreign-aid payments
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
USPS agreed to work with DOGE while planning 10,000 job cuts · Postal leadership announced 10,000 reductions through attrition
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE pushed millions of Social Security applicants toward in-person identity checks · SSA announced expanded in-person verification before partially narrowing the rule
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A district court restricted DOGE access to Social Security records · Access restrictions operated until the Supreme Court paused them on June 6
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A shrunken SBA was assigned a $1.6 trillion student-loan portfolio · The administration announced the portfolio transfer while implementation remained unresolved
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
SBA announced 2,700 cuts, about 43 percent of its workforce · SBA announced a return to roughly 2020 staffing levels through 2,700 reductions
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A court blocked Education and OPM from disclosing personal records to DOGE · Preliminary injunction restricted disclosures while the Privacy Act case proceeded
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
SSA narrowed its in-person mandate after access warnings · Telephone applications remained available for disability and Medicare claims after the revision
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A federal court blocked Vought's plan to dismantle CFPB · Preliminary injunction restricted layoffs, data destruction, and work stoppage
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
An appeals court temporarily restored DOGE access at Education and OPM · Appellate stay allowed access during the government's appeal
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Social Security's website repeatedly crashed during DOGE IT cuts · SSA recorded repeated outages and warned of continued instability
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Six million seniors live roughly 50 miles round-trip from a Social Security office · Geographic analysis identified 13.5 million seniors more than an hour from an office
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
An NLRB whistleblower alleged a large outbound transfer after DOGE arrived · The alleged transfer remained under oversight and was not publicly attributed to a recipient
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE received accounts capable of reaching sensitive NLRB case systems · A whistleblower disclosure prompted congressional and inspector-general review
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE took operational control of Grants.gov approvals · DOGE personnel imposed additional review over federal grant notices and awards
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Foreign-IP login attempts followed the NLRB access changes, a whistleblower alleged · Suspicious-login alerts were reported without a public attribution finding
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
SEC leaders resisted DOGE demands for broad internal data access · SEC officials negotiated limits on the requested access
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
The NLRB whistleblower alleged DOGE accounts bypassed normal logging · Logging allegations remained subject to investigation
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
The administration ended IRS Direct File after two filing seasons · Direct File was discontinued for the next filing season
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Direct File advocates projected up to $11 billion in annual taxpayer savings at maturity · Projected mature-state benefit was foregone when the service was discontinued
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
CFPB leadership prepared to eliminate roughly 90 percent of the bureau · The court blocked the mass termination while litigation continued
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Treasury's inspector general opened a review of Trump and DOGE taxpayer-data requests · TIGTA began preplanning and requested access agreements and legal rationales
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
SSA data work expanded toward a national voter-eligibility system · SSA and DHS pursued data matching for state election officials
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
NOAA's Great Lakes lab lost about 35 percent of its workforce · Hiring freeze and departures left key forecasting roles vacant
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
VA clinicians warned more than 1,000 veterans could lose access to research treatment · Some decisions were reversed, but several trials remained stalled
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A Musk-paid adviser helped dismantle the regulator overseeing Tesla and X payments · Disclosure showed concurrent private employment and government service
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
SSA abandoned a DOGE anti-fraud check after it disrupted legitimate claims · SSA withdrew the bank-account verification change after implementation problems
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Justice's Public Integrity Section lost most of its trial attorneys · The section operated with a sharply reduced trial-attorney roster
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE used Meta's Llama 2 model to analyze federal workers' email responses · OPM acknowledged automated processing while withholding detailed decision rules
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Federal outlays accelerated during Musk's DOGE tenure · Aggregate spending was rising faster than in the prior two years
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
IRS sought to rehire staff after cuts damaged filing and enforcement capacity · IRS joined agencies seeking to reverse selected dismissals
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
The Supreme Court paused restrictions and allowed DOGE to access Social Security systems · DOGE access resumed under the Supreme Court's procedural order
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Weather Service rehired forecasters after cuts left dangerous gaps · NWS received authority to restore selected critical positions
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
The DOGE 100 review found deep private-sector and regulatory overlaps · More than 100 DOGE-linked personnel had been identified; most disclosure files remained unavailable
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
HHS accumulated a billion-dollar grant backlog after DOGE controls · HHS acknowledged delayed grant processing worth about $1 billion
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Lancet researchers projected 14.05 million additional deaths by 2030 under full USAID defunding · Central projection remains conditional on continued severe defunding through 2030
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
More than 4,500 Forest Service firefighting jobs remained vacant · Internal data showed vacancies at the July 17 wildfire-season checkpoint
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
National Park Service lost roughly one-quarter of its permanent staff · Parks were operating with reduced permanent staffing during summer 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Parks curtailed programs and maintenance after staffing cuts · Multiple parks reported reduced programs, hours, or maintenance
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $1.68 million from three purchase-card freezes · $1.68 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $14.76 billion for deferred resignations · $14.76 billion minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $152.3 million for CFPB administrative leave · $152.34 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $155.1 million in time spent on DOGE's weekly email · $155.15 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $16.8 million to reinstate wrongly dismissed staff · $16.82 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $21.67 billion in DOGE-created costs · $21.67 billion minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $263.3 million in lost Energy loan interest and fees · $263.32 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $38.0 million for reduction-in-force planning · $37.97 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $41.8 million for OPM office relocations · $41.80 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $443.9 million for probationary workers placed on leave · $443.87 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $5.01 billion in severance exposure · $5.01 billion minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $50.5 million for DOGE's direct operations · $50.52 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $61.9 million for separation incentive payments · $61.87 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $66.5 million from unused SSA and park staff · $66.46 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff estimated $9.4 million for embedded DOGE agency teams · $9.40 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff identified $33.5 million sunk in IRS Direct File · $33.5 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Senate minority staff traced $41.1 million in USDS reimbursements · $41.12 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
An August audit found only $1.4 billion in lower federal spending · Politico's contract-level review identified $1.4 billion in actual spending cuts
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
More than 20,500 HHS workers left or were pushed out · ProPublica measured more than 20,500 departures across HHS agencies
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
A whistleblower alleged DOGE copied Social Security data into an unapproved cloud environment · The disclosure was referred for investigation
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE personnel worked in live Social Security production systems · Whistleblower materials documented concerns over production privileges
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
GSA rehired hundreds of workers dismissed during the DOGE purge · GSA offered reinstatement to hundreds of former employees
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
OPM could not show controls protecting classified or restricted responses · OIG recommended security and data-handling remediation
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
OPM's audit could not rule out unauthorized or foreign access to the email system · OIG found access-control and audit-trail weaknesses requiring correction
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
OPM's inspector general found no documented due diligence before DOGE's mass email system · OPM OIG issued a flash audit identifying missing predeployment controls
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
USDA canceled 94 million pounds of planned food-bank deliveries · ProPublica reconstructed the undelivered 2025 orders from USDA records
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Social Security callback waits reached about two and a half hours · Washington Post call tests documented callback waits around 150 minutes
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
OPM said centralized DOGE no longer existed months before its charter ended · OPM described DOGE as no longer centralized; embedded personnel continued agency work
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
SSA later identified material errors in sworn descriptions of DOGE data handling · Justice Department filed formal corrections to the record
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
House staff traced about $81 million approved for DOGE through January 2026 · Democratic committee staff estimated $81 million in fiscal 2025–2026 apportionments and reimbursements
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DHS staffing changed about 1 percent while most major agencies shrank · DHS had roughly a 1-percent workforce change over the GAO period
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
GAO counted nearly 378,000 separations across 22 major agencies in 2025 · GAO reported nearly 378,000 separations and about 127,000 hires for 2025
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
The workforce at 22 major agencies fell by nearly 256,000 · January 2026 payrolls were more than 11 percent below December 2024
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
DOGE overstated lease savings by $81.1 million, GAO found · GAO estimated $31.8 million, $81.1 million below DOGE's headline
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Forty-one percent of DOGE-listed lease terminations predated DOGE · GAO identified 108 of 264 listed leases as pre-DOGE actions
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
GAO could not link $25.63 billion of DOGE grant claims to award records · 3,528 grant entries remained unlinked after GAO matching
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
GAO could not link 1,856 DOGE contract entries worth $7.2 billion to federal records · GAO classified 1,856 contract entries as ultimately unlinked
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
GAO could reproduce only 3.8 percent of DOGE's grant-savings dollars · GAO reproduced $1.89 billion across 2,334 grant entries
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
GAO found $27.4 billion in DOGE-listed contracts with no termination action · GAO found no termination action for 2,503 listed contracts
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
GAO found 5,812 DOGE-listed contracts produced zero recorded savings · 5,812 contract entries showed zero savings in GAO's reconstruction
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
One DOGE-rescinded lease was replaced at more than $1.5 million extra per year · Replacement lease carried the higher annual cost for a five-year term
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Russell Vought was the Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director.
Appointment or biography record identifying Russell Vought as Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director
Only 27.5 percent of DOGE's contract savings followed its stated method · GAO replicated $16.8 billion of $61.0 billion using DOGE's stated method