Donald Trump Office of Management and Budget

Trump, budget

'Ultra-right': Trump budget chief pick Russell Vought faces fire from Dem senators

President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget faced a tough grilling from Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday.

The Associated Press on MSN · 7d

Trump’s pick for budget director won’t say whether he would release Ukraine aid

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director is declining to commit to doling out congressionally approved funds, specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

POLITICO on MSN · 18h

Trump’s budget pick is famous for defying Congress. GOP senators want to confirm him anyway.

It’s looking like "thumbs up" for Russ Vought in the Senate, where Republicans are preparing to confirm him to lead the White House budget office despite his reputation for withholding congressionally-approved funding.

The New Republic on MSN · 20h

Republicans Set Terrifying Precedent in Trump’s Budget Chief Hearing

Donald Trump’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget continued his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, but his uncanny ability to slide past tough questions—and the committee’s complicity in allowing him to do so—didn’t get past some of the Democratic lawmakers interviewing him.

Trump, federal workers

Yahoo · 36m

Trump orders federal workers back to office. How many in Kentucky are affected?

Donald Trump said during the campaign that he'd fire federal workers who won't return to the office and also challenge a Biden-era deal on the issue.

AOL · 19h

Trump's administration is asking federal agencies to put together lists of workers they could easily fire

OPM asked federal agencies to compile lists of workers to consider terminating, reflecting DOGE's goals to cut the government workforce.

The Washington Post on MSN · 23h

Trump targeted federal workers in his opening act, starting with DEI employees

President Donald Trump targeted federal workers in an opening act aimed at exerting political control over a sprawling bureaucracy — putting federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees on leave,

Trump, DEI

Santa Rosa Press Democrat · 13h

Everything Trump did in the first executive orders of his presidency

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities.

USA TODAY on MSN · 16h

Live updates: President Trump's latest executive orders hit DEI and more

On his first full day in office Tuesday, President Donald Trump continued sweeping actions, including ordering the shuttering of all executive branch diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and ordering all employees working in such offices to be placed on leave.

ABC · 18h

Trump 2nd term live updates: Federal DEI programs being wiped out

Federal agencies are being directed to place all employees working on DEI programs and initiatives to be put on paid administrative leave by Wednesday at 5 p.m. Meanwhile, legal challenges have been mounted against Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship and action that makes it easier to fire career government employees.

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Trump Budget Chief Pick Defends Spending Cut Plans — Using Trump Foe Paul Ryan’s Words

Russell Vought, likely to return as director of the Office of Management and Budget, echoed the former House speaker's ...

Truthout16h

Trump Budget Nominee Says He’s Proud of Legislation That Doubled Extreme Poverty

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Trump seeks to bring back Russell Vought as OMB director

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump wants Russell Vought to return to the White House and serve as director of the ...

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Elon Musk's DOGE faces lawsuits as Donald Trump takes office

Advocacy groups have targeted Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency in lawsuits for allegedly violating ...

Michigan senators oppose Trump's picks to lead Pentagon, White House budget office

Michigan's U.S. senators voted in committee against Trump's picks to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, and White House budget ...

Grist on MSN5h

What Trump can (and can’t) do to disrupt Los Angeles wildfire aid

It will be hard for the president to revoke FEMA funding — but a GOP-led Congress could slow down the region’s recovery.

19h

Trump orders all federal DEI staffers on leave while he dismantles their departments

A memo told federal agencies to put their workers in DEI roles on leave by 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday following President Donald ...

Trump Signs Dozens Of Executive Orders, Including An Indefinite Freeze On IRS Hiring

President Donald Trump signed dozens of executive actions on his first day in office, including two that could impact the IRS ...

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