WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director on Thursday night, putting an official ...

Vought was confirmed on a party-line vote of 53-47 after Democrats warned he was Trump's "most dangerous nominee." ...

Congress is locked in a contentious funding battle with an overzealous president who has spent his first weeks in office working ... that made its way to the United States Supreme Court, as ...

after the budget office on Monday issued a broadly worded memo freezing large swaths of federal assistance. They called the memo a major infringement on congressional funding authority and ...

Mr. Vought, an architect of Project 2025 who served in the first Trump administration, will be at the center of President ...

The memo, which goes into effect Tuesday, states its orders ... Trump’s nominee to lead the budget office, has vowed to try to move power over spending from Congress to the executive branch ...

The language in question, in one of dozens of orders Trump issued on his first day in office ... The United States is not allowed to default” on contracts. Transportation budget expert Jeff ...