White House budget director Russell Vought is suggesting that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is in violation of government building rules in the renovation of the Fed’s headquarters.

During a press gaggle on Friday, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought spoke about the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Russell Vought, President Trump's top budget adviser, took questions Friday morning as the White House ramps up pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower rates. Vought said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell,

Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, will soon assume a significant portion of DOGE’s responsibilities, including reclassifying federal employees, collaborating with Congress to recover funds, and advancing his proposed 2025 budget, which would drastically reduce government funding.

The White House's Russ Vought conceded the Senate vote on rescissions will be "tight" but remained adamant that it must "produce a victory."

President Trump announced in a letter posted to social media on Saturday that he would place a 30 percent tariff on goods from the European Union, upending months of careful negotiations and further roiling what is one of the world’s most important economic relationships.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought accused Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday of an “ostentatious” overhaul of the independent agency’s fiscal headquarters amid an increasingly aggressive campaign by President Trump to get Powell to step down from the job.

CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman said President Donald Trump is aiming to make Jerome Powell's life "as miserable as possible."

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell "has grossly mismanaged the Fed."