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(ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/AFP) He is perhaps the most powerful man in Washington at the moment, after Donald Trump. Russell Vought, the right-wing ideologue who heads the Office of Management and Budget, is using the US government shutdown to deliver ...
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Trump wants to cancel more funding during the shutdown. Courts have hampered his earlier efforts
President Donald Trump’s administration has canceled, or threatened to cancel, billions of dollars of previously approved federal spending and wants to go after even more funding during the shutdown.
Trump said he would be meeting with OMB Director Russ Vought to seize the opportunity presented by the government shutdown.
Federal courts have ordered the Office of Management and Budget to publish information about how agency funding is disbursed, but Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington contends that officials are using footnotes to obfuscate disclosure.
President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget office headed by Russ Vought is deciding who gets paid or fired in
The performance of our government across the board is being diminished,” warned Max Stier, CEO of Partnership for Public Service.
President Donald Trump said he would be open to talking to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — if they first agree to reopen the government. Trump made the comments at the White House on Tuesday during a Diwali celebration as the government shutdown entered its 21st day.
And even better than that, it’s a federal law Trump signed. Yes, yes, I know: federal law isn’t a big constraint on Trump White House planning. Make of that one what you will. But I want to zoom in on something else.
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Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals
Trump’s comments represent a dramatic about-face after he and his campaign spent much of last year denouncing Project 2025.
In a series of stories over the coming days, we will lay out numerous examples of how President Donald Trump has implemented Project 2025 proposals and how at times he diverged from the document. We start today with the document’s promise to “dismantle the administrative state.
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