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Office of Management and Budget
January 30, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Democrats Protest Vote on Trump’s Budget Pick Over Medicaid Freeze
Republicans still pushed Russell Vought through.
January 29, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Causes Mass Confusion With Funding Freeze Updates
Donald Trump took back his chaotic freeze on federal grants and loans—only to immediately take back the take-back.
January 29, 2025
Edith Olmsted
No, Trump Didn’t Block $50 Million in Condoms to Gaza
Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted this was the reason for freezing Medicaid.
January 28, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government
Chaos isn’t a by-product; it’s the goal.
January 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Handed First Major Loss as Judge Blocks His Funding Freeze
Donald Trump had ordered a halt on all government loans and grants.
January 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
AOC Rips Trump as White House Scrambles to Fix Medicaid Freeze
Donald Trump shut down Medicaid access in every single state.
January 28, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Key Programs Trump’s Budget Freeze Just Wrecked
Donald Trump ordered a widespread pause on federal grans and loans.
January 22, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s Budget Pick Grilled on What Exactly He Thinks Is “Woke”
Russell Vought, Project 2025 mastermind and Trump’s nominee for the Office of Management and Budget, had quite a testy confirmation hearing.
January 22, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Budget Chief Pick Refuses to Answer Questions—and GOP Lets Him
Republican senators were apparently all too happy to let Russell Vought skate through.
January 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Most Terrifying Answer in Trump’s Budget Chief Hearing
Donald Trump nominated Russell Vought to run the Office of Management and Budget.
April 12, 2017
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump ruined everything by hiring a bunch of movement conservatives who think he’s a sucker.
September 19, 2014
Rebecca Leber
How to Scare a Republican About Climate Change
June 1, 2012
Simon van Zuylen-Wood
Rob Portman's Solyndra: Why is the GOP's VP Darling Begging For a Bailout?
May 24, 2012
Alec MacGillis
How Ohio Democrats View Rob Portman
March 23, 2012
Simon van Zuylen-Wood
How Obama’s Latest Education Initiative Could Threaten American Preschool
January 12, 2012
Eliza Gray
Vice Squad
January 3, 2012
Molly Redden
Meet the Obama Administration's Office For Antagonizing Environmental Activists
October 17, 2011
Jonathan Rothwell
How to Turn a $5,000 per Job Program into a Political Disaster
September 27, 2011
Jonathan Rothwell, Mark Muro
Don’t Abandon Federal Clean Energy Lending
September 14, 2011
Peter Orszag
Too Much of a Good Thing

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