After House Republicans shared a new budget proposal this week, some Democrats began sounding the alarm that Medicaid funding could be significantly impacted by proposed cuts. Nearly 80 million Americans benefit from the government-run health insurance program,

Donald Trump continued his efforts to amass power, signing an executive order asserting presidential control of independent regulatory agencies. It instructs the director of the Office of Management and Budget,

That's according to Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama administration, who warned in a Washington Post op-ed that Trump's trade war could expand beyond tariffs.

MARTA CEO Collie Greenwood laid out numbers in a MARTA board meeting last week and repeated them Wednesday at the South Metro Development Outlook conference.

Uncertainty in federal funding under President Donald Trump's administration has made a tough state budget season even more difficult for Gov. JB Pritzker and Illinois Democrats who control Springfield.

Russell Vought, head of Trump's Office of Budget and Management, believes the president has the power to completely dismantle any aspect of the federal government he chooses. Bipartisan leaders say Trump and Vought are trying to provoke a constitutional crisis.

Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), confirmed that the Trump administration has set up a "tip line" for companies to snitch on employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) who are doing their jobs despite a work stoppage order.

Now, President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Russ Vought—who was confirmed as director of the Office of Management and Budget but also appointed by Trump as the acting head of CFPB—are attempting to dismember the financial watchdog.

The actions of the Trump administration in its first weeks in office should put all nonprofits on alert, writes Kristi S. Halford of C The Trump administration last month issued a memo out of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that paused all grants,

The evangelical college posted, then deleted, a message celebrating Vought's confirmation as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

In the federal government, that means any employee who is new to a position for as long as two years, who is not covered by a union or other contract. According to an August 2024 report by the Office of Management and Budget (the most current month available in the database),