Russell Vought previously served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget during President Donald Trump's first ...

The Senate was headed for a confirmation vote Thursday night on Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director, who is planning to use one of ...

Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled ...

Disparate fights in the early weeks of Trump 2.0 are linked together by the question of whether a president can take spending ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 29 The Washington Post on Trump's OMB pick The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck about the constitutional issues raised by the Trump administration's efforts to pause federal loans and grants last week.

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

President Trump signed an executive order calling for a federal "funding freeze," and Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) subsequently issued ...

An internal OMB document shows that it is official administration policy to block funding to provoke a constitutional ...

The Trump administration backed down Wednesday from its sloppy order — after the edict was put on hold by a federal judge — imposing a sweeping federal spending freeze. But even as it backtracked, the ...

Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a ...

For example, Trump cannot on his own repeal legislation like the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. But OMB could ...