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Russell Vought

What's on Russell Vought's mind?

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Hollowing out the CFPB 28% · newThe Iran war's price tag 22% · newPoliticizing federal grants 17% · newDOGE winds down 13% · neweverything else 20%
#1
The CFPB isn't dead — Vought just wants it comatose

NOTUS calls the bureau 'diminished but still alive'; now it's reopening credit-card late-fee rules in a major turnabout.

Diminished But Still Alive: Inside Russ Vought’s CFPB - News of the United States

NOTUS · 2026-07-10
our translation

he can't legally kill the agency, so he keeps it on life support — a bureau that exists on paper but never bites a bank is the win.

new — NOTUS profile dropped todaypretty sure · 2 sources
#2
$100B and counting — and the budget boss has no clean answer
new — war-cost tally tops $100Bpretty sure · 2 sources
#3
'Cancel culture for cancer research,' says The Hill
new — religious groups pressure buildspretty sure · 2 sources
#4
DOGE closes up shop, savings tally 'in dispute'
new — DOGE officially shutting downpretty sure · 1 source
friday, july 10
Field another round of questions on the Iran war's ballooning cost(reported)
Keep the CFPB technically open while quietly clipping its wings(safe bet)
Sit on the disease-research grant money a little longer(reported)
Draft talking points on where DOGE's savings actually went(safe bet)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Trump's budget boss Russell Vought skewered over Iran war cost with chilling question

news.google.com · 2026-07-10

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