You can make all kinds of claims and promises when running for office. But once you’re in charge, you have to watch your words. There are consequences and real-life implications for the things you say ...

On Monday, the White House Office of Management and Budget put out a memorandum, which is not supposed to carry the weight of an appropriation passed into law by Congress, telling federal agencies to ...

A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

The directive from the Office of Management and Budget that froze most federal funds on Monday had not gone through the usual ...

Multiple groups called on the Senate to reject President Trump’s pick for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, ...

Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump for a news conference Thursday in which he said that his predecessors and diversity were to blame for Wednesday night’s fatal collision of an Army ...

The Trump administration is poised to oust Biden-era appointee Rohit Chopra as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and is considering either the Treasury Department or the White House ...

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, ...

To contextualize a chaotic first 10 days for the federal government in President Donald Trump’s second term, some have ...

The panel voted 11-0 to move Vought’s nomination to the floor — a vote made up entirely of Republicans, as Democrats announced earlier that they would be boycotting the meeting.

Senate Republicans advanced the nomination of Russell Vought to lead the White House budget office as Democrats boycotted the meeting to protest the administration’s recent efforts to freeze ...