Dan Bishop, nominee for deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, advanced 8-1. Ranking member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) was the lone dissenter. Trump nominated Bishop, a former Republican congressman from North Carolina,
A federal judge on Thursday expressed doubt that the White House's Office of Management and Budget's attempt to freeze up to $3 trillion in federal funding was within the agency's constitutional authority.
The moves were spearheaded by powerful Trump ally Elon Musk, a CFPB critic, and Russell Vought, who heads the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. The events put the future of the CFPB in doubt.
President Donald J. Trump recently issued a new executive order (EO) that will require “independent agencies” to submit their rulemaking to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Interestingly (but unsurprisingly),
Gov. JB Pritzker and 16 Illinois Democrats sent a letter to OMB Director Russell Vought on Tuesday demanding the Trump administration release $1.88 billion in federal funding to Illinois.
The House on Tuesday narrowly passed a Republican budget resolution that called for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $2 trillion reduction in federal spending over a decade, a first step for advancing major elements of President Trump’s domestic agenda.
President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aiming to expand the White House’s authority over various independent regulatory agencies, a move likely to prompt legal challenges. Trump issued
The order weighing on the federal agency's independence could also have implications on enforcement activity, concerned observers say.
President Donald Trump will sign another executive order Wednesday supporting the Department of Government Efficiency's stated war against federal waste.
Elon Musk — whose name has become nearly synonymous with the “Department of Government Efficiency” — doesn’t actually work for it, the White House said.
The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines the group and expands a list of DOGE workers.