Who’s the Shadow President?

Reporter Andy Kroll got his hands on secret tapes of a low-profile bureaucrat named Russell Vought. Turns out, as director of the Office of Management and Budget, he’s been quietly reshaping the federal government and commanding many of the second Trump administration’s biggest moves.

Read the reporting here: https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb

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