← Chronicle · Confirmation · February 6, 2025

Russell Vought Confirmed as OMB Director, 53–47

Senate vote: 53–47

Russell Vought was confirmed by the Senate as Director of the Office of Management and Budget on February 6, 2025, by a vote of 53–47. It is his second stint as OMB Director, returning to the post he held in the first Trump administration.

The mission that started here is the budget and workforce portfolio this chronicle tracks under the Gov Efficiency & Workforce hub: federal spending, agency restructuring, and the workforce reductions that became one of the administration’s defining domestic programs, run through the budget office Vought directs.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, February 6, 2025 (vote and date banked in this site’s research cluster C); Office of Management and Budget.