President-elect Trump announced Friday that he is naming Ross Vought to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Why it matters: OMB, which Vought also led during Trump's first term in the White House,

President-elect Donald Trump is planning to tap conservative loyalist Russell Vought to be the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, according to two sources close to his transition effort,

During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump had hailed what would become Project 2025 as a conservative roadmap for “exactly what our movement will do."

Russell Vought, a prominent contributor to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, will return as director of the Office of Management and Budget in Donald Trump's second administration, the president-elect announced Friday.

Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration as attorney general and was replaced by Pam Bondi, as Trump plans to make RFK Jr. his secretary of health and human services and Pete Hegseth his defense secretary,

Russell Vought was a key architect of Project 2025 and previously served as OMB director during Trump's first term.

The president-elect is staffing his administration with people affiliated with the controversial policy and personnel blueprint that he had disavowed on the campaign trail.

Russell Vought, who would lead the Office of Management and Budget, has spent years building plans to rework the American structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power.