Members of both parties want to tweak environmental and agricultural provisions in the White House rescissions package.

The Senate voted by a razor-thin margin late Tuesday to advance debate on a package of funding cuts requested by President Trump that would claw back $1.1 billion previously allocated to the ...

Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, questioned Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's use of federal funds to renovate two buildings in a letter Vought posted to his ...

Vought pitches reluctant senators on $9.4B in clawbacks to NPR, PBS, foreign aid Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose support was in question, told the White House budget director he will vote for it.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — As Russell Vought, the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, testified June 9 before the House Appropriations Committee, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin ...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought was grilled by both sides of the aisle over the administration’s sweeping cost-cutting plans as he testified before House ...

Vought calls for more OMB staff after spearheading governmentwide cuts Architect of Trump’s government overhaul says he does not want to "traumatize" feds and some agencies have staff "doing ...

When Rep. Steny Hoyer asked if federal employees should be treated with dignity, civilians in attendance took Vought’s answer as a joke.

Meet Elon Musk’s Puppet Master: Russell Vought The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.

Transition Russell Vought: DOGE will ‘be far more institutionalized’ at agencies The OMB director shared plans with House lawmakers for a post-Elon Musk DOGE, further entrenched in agencies and funded ...

Russell Vought asks Congress to rubber-stamp DOGE cuts via rescissions. With Elon Musk gone, the next phase of Team Trump’s effort to gut federal programs is now underway.

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