Instead, Trump is testing an idea championed by his nominee for budget director, Russ Vought, that the executive has the ability to “impound” federal funds, clawing the money back. Republican Sen.

I mean, Russ Vought isn't even in OMB yet, officially. And before he got there, he was very clear that they have 350 documents already prepared to roll out that include all these sorts of plans.

Trump and his choice for director of Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, hold the view that the president has the power to withhold money appropriated by Congress. That theory of ...

But other Project 2025 authors have been welcomed into government jobs. Russell Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist, wrote a key chapter in the document and was confirmed by the Senate ...

Donald Trump's plans to remake American government center on one man and one agency: Russ Vought and the Office of Management and Budget. Vought, Trump's nominee to lead the agency, is "starting ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. Three years ago, Russell Vought, President Trump’s choice to become director of the Office ...

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.

Here's a look at the latest "breaking news" (Vought's terms for carefully crafted ... "Look, I think 'The Boys' probably, for better or worse, is a political show at this point.

Russell Vought, a longtime budget hawk and Washington insider, has spent years pressing to dismantle the so-called administrative state. One is the richest man in the world, the chief executive of ...

Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee advanced Russell Vought’s nomination to head ... Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the ...

Upon its release nearly 24 years ago, "Bridget Jones's Diary" became, against all odds, a phenomenon, making over $334 million at the box office and spawning an entire franchise. Somehow, this ...