A top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau argues the administration is no longer trying to destroy the agency, while unions say Trump wants a "complete shutdown." ...

On Monday January 27 th, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum instituting a pause on federal grant and loan programs. This memo quickly became the subject ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and 16 Illinois Democrats sent a letter to OMB Director Russell Vought on Tuesday demanding the Trump ...

The Trump administration is directing federal agencies to begin preparations for large-scale layoffs and restructuring, and ...

U.S. District Judge Loren Alikhan sided with a group of nonprofit organizations, saying that a freeze on federal assistance "may be crossing a constitutional line." ...

Trump orders temporary funding freeze that could affect trillions of dollars The White House is pausing ... Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, a position Vought held ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — With harsh words about President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze up to $3 trillion in federal funding to ...

The original memo from Matthew Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, ordered all federal agencies to "temporarily pause all activities related to obligations ...

Confusion followed the Jan. 27 announcement from the White House budget office that ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, as the scale of the potential impact on the University of ...

A federal judge has extended her hold on a White ... the pause, as outlined in last week's memo, "under a different name." The orders come after the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded ...

Vought was one of the architects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for Trump’s second term.

Russell Vought, 48, the architect of Project 2025, will lead the Office of Management and Budget, where he will oversee the president's budget.