(RNS) — Despite Wheaton College’s attempts to quiet a backlash from alumni over its pro forma congratulatory message recognizing alumnus and newly confirmed White House official Russell Vought ...

As the White House budget chief, Russell Vought has tremendous power to implement Project 2025’s conservative policy agenda.

to Wheaton College, an evangelical institution just outside Chicago. Vought was hardly a right-wing ideologue in his college years. He ran for student body vice president in 1997, on a ticket that ...

The man who built much of that infrastructure is Russell Vought, an architect of Trump’s shock-and-awe second-term agenda. During the Biden years, Vought led the Center for Renewing America ...

Associated Press Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 9:53 p.m. | Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 9:53 p.m. WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director on Thursday night ...