Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, promised to help American taxpayers while undergoing a contentious confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

I commend to your attention the recent confirmation hearings of Russell Vought, the career apparatchik and key figure behind Project 2025, a veritable Vesuvius of bad and dangerous ideas whom the president seeks to place in charge of the federal budget.

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President Donald Trump’s pick for budget director faced another series of questions over presidential power to withhold government funding.

Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as budget director in Donald Trump's first term, has signaled he will take a more aggressive approach to helping the president-elect carry out his agenda of shrinking the federal government.

For the many people considered enemies by President Donald Trump, his return to the White House has sparked anxiety about how much power he has to upend their lives.

Russell Vought, Project 2025 mastermind and Trump’s nominee for the Office of Management and Budget, had quite a testy confirmation hearing.

One of the president’s most controversial Cabinet nominees wants to shuffle the deck on core American principles, such as checks and balances.

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If confirmed, Mr. Vought will be at the center of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, calling Russell Vought "dangerous." CBS News' Taurean Small reports.