Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee for budget chief, has a plan: cut taxes for the wealthy, eliminate regulations on corporate power, and slash spending on government programs the rest of the country depends on.

If Russell Vought is confirmed as Office of Management and Budget director, he will continue to enact and accelerate the radical, sweeping agenda he began to implement in that same position during the final two years of the first Trump administration.

President Donald Trump is pushing to root out disloyal government employees and seemingly exact retribution against those who’ve crossed him, roiling the federal workforce.

During the confirmation hearing for Trump's OMB nominee, Russell Vought in the Senate this week, Senator Mark Warner lost it on Vought over his past comments.

Vought was OMB director during Trump’s first term. He already had a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Democrats opposed a now-rescinded funding freeze by Trump and refused to show up for OMB nominee Russell Vought's confirmation hearing.

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

The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.

The White House has rescinded the freeze on federal grants and loans after facing furious backlash from both sides of the aisle. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

President Donald Trump’s budget office has rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants , less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, according to two people familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported even before a conviction.