Russell Vought

thumb|We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma. Russell Thurlow Vought (born March 26, 1976) is an American political advisor who has served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget since February 2025. Vought has additionally served as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from February 2025 to August 2026 and served as the acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from August to November 2025. He served as the Office of Management and Budget's director from 2020 to 2021 and as its deputy director, as well as its acting director, from 2018 to 2020. Quotes We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma. Vought's description in 2023 of his intent to destroy morale within the United States civil service in order to drive staff to resign. Over 300,000 federal employees have either resigned or been fired since Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. As quoted by Molly Redden and Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, "“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda", Propublica (28 October 2024) External links Category:Lawyers from New York (state) Category:Government officials Category:Christians from the United States Category:Nationalists Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:Conservatives from the United States