“It’s already causing chaos and confusion,” he said of the OMB directive. “The president’s freezing funds for essential and urgent programs that are the responsibility of the Department ...

The freeze, which was not publicly communicated by the Trump administration, but rather discovered by independent journalist Marisa Kabas, was dictated via a memo from the interim director of the ...

Matthew Vaeth, Trump’s acting head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), wrote that the pause, which will take effect on Tuesday evening, is being imposed to ensure that the government ...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, called a new memo from the White House budget office freezing the disbursement of federal loans and grants ...

The Democratic objections to OMB Director-designate Russ Vought stemmed from three main concerns: the likelihood he will propose slashing federal programs through diminished budgets, his stated ...

Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testified Wednesday before the Senate Budget Committee for his confirmation hearing.

Federal agencies must report this information to OMB along with an analysis of the requirement. OMB also directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated with open NOFOs, such as ...

when I asked him what part of Project 2025 he would disagree with, he couldn’t point to one.” Vought previously served as OMB director in the last two years of Trump’s first administration.

The report in question by Alan Rappeport focused on Vought’s nomination to head up OMB during Trump’s second presidency, a position he also held during Trump’s first term, and the work ...

The Trump administration is facing a lawsuit over a new plan to pause a wide range of payments of federal grants, loans and assistance, a move that could affect the flow of billions of dollars ...

Topher Spiro, a former associate director at OMB, called the OMB memo “a massive fraud,” and said he has “no doubt that OMB lawyers would believe this is illegal.” “I know (acting OMB ...

Russell Vought defended plans to review whether a president can withhold approved spending. Democratic senators on Wednesday pressed President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Office of ...