frozen snapshot — 2026-07-18 · see today →

What's on Russell Vought's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6

28%20%16%12%24%

Grilled on both sides of the Capitol 28% Tillis shouting about DOGE 20% Hollowing out the CFPB 16% Asking Congress to bind the CFPB 12% everything else 24%

Back-to-back hearings, House then Senate, same director in the chair

Warren, Pressley, and Cortez Masto took turns; the semi-annual report was titled 'A New Day at the CFPB.'

Budget Director Vought Testifies on Consumer Protections

C-SPAN · 2026-07-16

our translation

he volunteered for both chambers in one week because the hearings are the product — every clip of him staying calm while democrats shout is a resume line for the next job

Two chambers in 48 hoursvery sure · 5 sources

A Republican senator called the savings math 'amateurish' to his face

GOP senator, not a Democratvery sure · 4 sources

Senate Democrats put a number on the overhaul: $26.5 billion

Senate report priced the damagevery sure · 4 sources

'Bind our agency' — the regulator asking to be regulated

Abolishment said aloud under oathpretty sure · 3 sources

saturday, july 18

Have OMB counsel read the funding-clause ruling twice(reported)

Dispute the $26.5 billion math, line by line(reported)

Send Tillis's office the DOGE savings detail he asked for(reported)

Draft the statutory CFPB rewrite before the job ends(safe bet)

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

The source

Federal judge bars Trump administration from using obscure clause to make huge funding cuts

news.google.com · 2026-07-18

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