President-elect Donald Trump has selected Russell Vought as his pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, he said in a Truth Social post.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Russell Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as a platform policy director for the Republican National Committee, as his pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

But if Vought is appointed and confirmed by the Senate, he will once again be working in an office that he has sought to drastically downsize. He wrote the Project 2025 chapter, " Executive Office of the President ,

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key architect of "Project 2025," the controversial conservative plan to overhaul the government, to be director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget,

Russell Vought, Trump's pick for White House budget director, is one of the authors of the conservative policy blueprint Project 2025

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as his choice for treasury secretary and first-term official Russell Vought to head the Office of Management and Budget.

Trump also said he would nominate Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, a position Vought held during Trump's first presidency. Vought was closely involved with Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for Trump's second term that he tried to distance himself from during the campaign.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Russell Vought to head the Office of Management and Budget in his new administration. Vought wrote part of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.