Donald Trump signs executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its ...
President Donald Trump's early moves to control spending test authority of Congress
A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.
Senate confirms Russell Vought as Trump’s next OMB director
Vought's return to the Office of Management and Budget is a green light for his radical overhaul of the federal government.
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Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead OMB in party-line vote
Despite an overnight effort on the Senate floor from Democratic lawmakers to derail Russell Vought’s path to becoming Office ...
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Appropriations Democrats press Zeldin on ‘illegal’ EPA grant freeze
The letter is signed by top Senate Appropriations Committee ... to impound any funds already appropriated by Congress. Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee for budget director, told a Senate ...
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Key Trump Nominee Hints at Push for Work Requirements in Medicaid
Russell T. Vought, President Trump’s nominee to run ... Mr. Vought cited as a model the welfare reform bill signed into law in 1996, which required low-income Americans to prove they were ...
Senate confirms Russ Vought as Trump’s budget director despite Democrats’ stall tactics
Vought previously served as director of the OMB during Trump’s first term. The OMB produces and oversees the president’s ...
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Trump’s Budget Chief Pick Refuses to Answer Questions—and GOP Lets Him
That roped Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham into the heated back and forth, who impressed on Vought that he did not have attorney-client privilege to evade a line of questioning as some ...