If confirmed, Vought will be in charge of overseeing the White House budget and putting Trump’s policies into action across executive divisions.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Russell Vought, a key architect of Project 2025 and defender of strong presidential powers, as OMB director.

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."