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.

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.

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."

President-elect Trump nominated Scott Bessent, the founder and CEO of global macro investment firm Key Square Group, for treasury secretary.

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,

After repeatedly disavowing Project 2025 during his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump announced he will nominate co-author Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

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.

Russ Vought, a Project 2025 author with ties to the Christian nationalism movement, is Trump's pick to head the budget office.