On Monday, January 27, 2024, after one week in office, the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum announcing a freeze on potentially trillions of dollars in ...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday approved President Donald Trump’s pick for a top White House budget spot with nearly unanimous support. Dan Bishop ...

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OMB, he wrote, should be “involved in all aspects of the White House policy process,” becoming “powerful enough to override implementing agencies’ bureaucracies.” He told Carlson that “OMB is the ...

Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is ordering federal agencies to formulate plans for a reduction in workforce, likely terminating many ...

OMB, he wrote, should be “involved in all aspects of the White House policy process,” becoming “powerful enough to override implementing agencies’ bureaucracies.” He told Carlson that ...

"The federal government is costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt," the OMB memo said. "At the same time, it is not producing results for the American public. Instead, tax dollars are being ...

Vought, who was confirmed earlier this month to lead OMB, has deemed the Impoundment Control Act, which keeps the executive branch from redirecting appropriated funds, to be unconstitutional.

That move, back in 2020, was partly the work of Russell Vought, who is once again leading the OMB. In the four years that Trump was out of power, Vought was busy establishing the framework for the ...