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Farman works for a different government agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but she understood that the USAID news suggested she might be next. The CFPB, like USAID, is fairly obscure, ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will immediately pause over $11 billion in projects due to the government shutdown, Trump administration budget chief Russell Vought said. The paused funds pertain to ...
Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a federal ...
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said Office of Management and Budget head Russell Vought has been dreaming of a government shutdown “since puberty.” Lee first made the comments in an interview on Fox News. “OMB ...
The Trump administration memo that landed in federal agency in-boxes last week wasn’t subtle. As Washington careened toward a government shutdown, there would be nothing normal about the agency ...
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It was Russ Vought who huddled with House Republicans on the first day of the government shutdown to tell them that mass layoffs of federal workers would begin in "a day or two." Vought, director of ...
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought said Wednesday the Trump administration could ultimately lay off more than 10,000 federal employees during the government shutdown. Vought ...
President Trump said Thursday that he would meet with his budget director, Russ Vought, about which "Democrat Agencies" to cut as the federal government has lurched into a shutdown. The federal ...