OMB nominee ‘can’t commit’ to forgoing ‘pocket rescissions’ funding gambit this year - Live Updates - POLITICO

Trump administration officials claim they can submit a formal request to rescind funding with less than 45 days left in the fiscal year and then withhold it until it lapses on Oct. 1, regardless of whether Congress acts, even though lawmakers in both parties consider the tactic an illegal end-run around Congress’ “power of the purse.”…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/16/congress/pocket-rescissions-on-the-table-00963376

 

Sen. Whitehouse Makes the Case Against Russ Vought's Nomination to Lead OMB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8YrB7JWkJk

 

Fed Judge ISSUES SCATHING ORDER against Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d24mIR3V7Y

 

Sen. Whitehouse Grills Project 2025 Author and Trump OMB Nominee Russell Vought in Budget Hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5eJaZafSMQ

Trump selects key Project 2025 figure Russ Vought to head budget office

Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, the controversial conservative plan to overhaul the government, to be director of the US Office of Management and Budget, a powerful agency that helps decide the president's policy priorities and how to pay for them...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-russ-vought-budget

Trump Is Nominating A Project 2025 Architect To A Key Role | HuffPost Latest News

Russ Vought, a Project 2025 author with ties to the Christian nationalism movement, is Trump's pick to head the budget office...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-russ-vought-project-2025_n_6741248be4b078cce4af42b0

OMB director fires back at Republicans over debt ceiling - POLITICO

She also noted that the debt ceiling was raised three times during the Trump administration without these type of conditions. 

Though the Freedom Caucus plan did not call for cuts to Social Security, Young said that Republican policies pose a threat to it. 

"Let me be clear, the top existential threat to Social Security is those in this town that want to cut it," Young told Collins. "I wish we were in the part of the debate where we could talk about extending. This president chose to focus on protecting benefits."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/12/omb-young-debt-ceiling-social-security-medicare-00086667

White House budget office gives political appointees more power in spending, alarming career officials - The Washington Post

The White House budget office has upended a decades-old practice on how federal agencies spend money, giving more power to political appointees to move money around, two senior administration officials confirmed. Previously, career staffers at the White House Office of Management and Budget, the kind of employees who work at agencies despite changes in administrations, were charged with signing off on approving the “apportionment” of funds, deciding how to shift or restrict the disbursement of money already approved by Congress. Under a new system unilaterally put in place last week, those decisions will now be signed off on by political appointees chosen by the Trump administration who work as program associate directors at the OMB.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/20/white-house-spending-power/

OMB letters show that staffers knew they were committing a crime, and they're still covering it up

When Donald Trump handed down the demand that military assistance to Ukraine go into the freezer until he got the Biden-dirt he was demanding from the U.S. ally, someone had to carry out that order. That person was Mick Mulvaney. In his double role as acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mulvaney both is right there to catch whatever Trump is pitching and has the government’s checkbook in hand.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/2/13/1918988/-OMB-letters-show-that-they-knew-they-were-committing-a-crime-and-they-re-still-covering-it-up

Newly released emails show White House prepared to freeze Ukraine aid hours before Trump’s phone call – Raw Story

White House budget officials were preparing to freeze aid to Ukraine the night before President Donald Trump’s infamous July 25 phone call to the country’s new president, according to newly released emails. The Office of Management and Budget handed over nearly 200 pages of records related to the president’s actions toward Ukraine to the transparency group American Oversight, and one of the heavily redacted emails from July 24 shows OMB officials shared a “Ukraine Prep Memo” with Michael Duffey, reported CNN. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/newly-released-emails-show-white-house-prepared-to-freeze-ukraine-aid-hours-before-trumps-phone-call/

Unredacted emails show OMB officials knowingly engaged in conspiracy to hide illegal action by Trump

Unredacted versions of White House memos, obtained by the website Just Security, confirm that the decision to withhold U.S. military assistance from Ukraine came straight from Donald Trump. Those memos show rapidly escalating concern from officials at both the White House and the Pentagon who saw that Trump’s actions in delaying the release of the aide were both illegal and likely to generate a political firestorm. And they demonstrate that by the time Trump called the Ukrainian president, officials at the Office of Management and Budget were actively engaged in disguising the truth and conspiring to deceive both Congress and the public.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/1/2/1909016/-Unredacted-emails-show-OMB-officials-knowingly-engaged-in-conspiracy-to-hide-illegal-action-by-Trump

In new legal memo, White House budget office defends withholding aid to Ukraine - The Washington Post

OMB's legal rationale was crafted to respond to questions from the Government Accountability Office...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-new-legal-memo-white-house-budget-office-defends-withholding-aid-to-ukraine/2019/12/11/0caa030e-1b95-11ea-826b-14ef38a0f45f_story.html

3 takeaways from Mark Sandy’s and Philip Reeker’s testimony on Ukraine - The Washington Post

Two OMB officials resigned as the Ukraine aid was languishing.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/26/takeaways-mark-sandys-philip-reekers-testimony-ukraine/

Mark Sandy, a longtime career employee at the White House Office of Management and Budget, is expected to appear to testify to Democrats’ impeachment inquiry on Saturday - The Washington Post

A longtime career employee at the White House Office of Management and Budget is expected to break ranks and testify Saturday in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, potentially filling in important details on the holdup of military aid to Ukraine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/11/14/career-white-house-budget-official-expected-break-ranks-testify-impeachment-inquiry/

State Department "quietly authorized" some Ukraine aid money — report - Axios

State Department lawyers found President Trump and the White House Office of Management and Budget had no legal ground to block the department sending military aid to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports.
https://www.axios.com/trump-impeachment-ukraine-military-aid-a9be7c06-3ea5-4d9b-801a-1cdf6877cc31.html

White House to propose using budget maneuver to prevent defense spending cuts - The Hill

President Trump plans to propose using a budget maneuver to invest in defense and national security without lifting budget caps, according to acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought on Monday...
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/431446-white-house-to-propose-using-budget-maneuver-to-prevent-defense-spending-cuts

Trump's Own Budget Office Puts the Brakes on Proposed Religious Imposition Rule - Rewire.News

"OMB’s delayed approval recognizes that the Department sacrificed the administrative processes designed to promote good government in order to satisfy the ideological zealousness of a handful of Trump appointees."....

https://rewire.news/article/2018/06/13/trumps-budget-office-puts-brakes-proposed-religious-imposition-rule/

Why Does OMB Want Authority Over Tax Law? - Mother Jones

Politico reports on an obscure bureaucratic struggle currently taking place behind the scenes: The White House is poised to give its budget office greater control over some of the Treasury Department's regulations, handing budget director Mick Mulvaney a victory in a months-long power struggle with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, according to three sources familiar with the discussions....
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/03/why-does-omb-want-authority-over-tax-law/

Trump White House quietly issues report vindicating Obama regulations - Vox

It was easy to miss, but OMB demolishes the GOP's deregulatory claims. ....
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/3/6/17077330/trump-regulatory-agenda-omb

WH quietly issues report to Congress showing benefits of regulations -- The Hill

The White House on Friday quietly released its annual [draft report] to Congress on the costs and benefits of regulation ....
http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/375684-wh-quietly-issues-report-to-congress-showing-benefits-of