The confirmation of Russell T. Vought to lead the powerful White House budget office is likely to escalate the funding fights ...

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

As the Trump administration seeks to make massive cuts to federal spending, certain lawmakers and advocates say Social Security shouldn’t be a target.

Donald Trump will need congressional approval if he wants to abolish federal agencies, a legal analyst has told Newsweek.

The far right, including Elon Musk, are pushing a conspiracy theory that the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

Democrats fought the OMB nominee's confirmation, elevating a little-known agency head to the national spotlight amid larger ...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought as the next director of the powerful White House budget office, installing a conservative fiscal hawk who has promised to pursue sweeping spending cuts ...

If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

In Washington, many conservatives are cheering the Musk-led DOGE’s gutting of USAID as an example of how it is possible to ...

Three weeks in, the change the Trump administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented ...

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

Demonstrators outside the Capitol on Wednesday in support of U.S. Agency for International Development.Credit...Haiyun Jiang ...