The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul that has cut thousands of federal jobs, according to three documents seen by Reuters.
Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security
-- Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) Feb 13, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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