Jan 15, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director, declined Wednesday to fully commit to doling out congressionally approved funds, specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

In 2019, Vought was one of nine government officials who defied a subpoena to testify before Congress in relation to the Trump–Ukraine scandal and the administration's decision to freeze military aid to Ukraine. The decision to freeze aid to Ukraine had led Democrats to launch the first impeachment of Donald Trump. [14] [15]

Jan 16, 2025 · Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s expected nominee to run OMB, told Senators that he would follow the Impoundment Control Act. If Russell Vought’s confirmation hearing to run the Office of Management and Budget was a boxing match, the judges would’ve given him the win on points.

Jan 22, 2025 · As President Donald Trump boldly defies the will of Congress by issuing executive orders freezing billions of dollars in federal cash that lawmakers have approved in recent years, Senate...

Jan 15, 2025 · Russell Vought, nominee for White House budget director, faces tough questions on Ukraine aid and fiscal policies during his confirmation hearing

Jan 22, 2025 · Vought ran Trump’s Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021, during which time he froze military aid for Ukraine, claimed that foreign aid expenditures were “wasteful ...

Jan 16, 2025 · The Senate’s confirmation hearing of Russell Vought, one of Washington’s staunchest advocates for cutting spending, offered a preview Wednesday of the bruising spending wars likely to consume...

Jan 15, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director, declined Wednesday to fully commit to doling out congressionally approved funds,...

Jan 15, 2025 · Democrats grilled Russell Vought, who was tapped to be President-elect Trump’s next budget chief, for his ties to Project 2025 and the powers of the executive branch as senators weighed his...

21 hours ago · Russell Vought during a press briefing on March 11, 2019, at the White House. (Tia Dufour / Official White House Photo / Flickr) ... ending military aid to Ukraine, banning online pornography, and making cuts to the FBI’s intelligence and counterintelligence divisions to discourage its supposed targeting of conservatives ...