Office of Management and Budget

U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin tesifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation h...

White House says funds to pay TSA and other Homeland Security workers will 'soon run out'

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

House Budget Committee hearing on the Trump administration's 2027 budget request, on Capitol Hill in Washington

WATCH: OMB chief Vought says Homeland Security is 'disintegrating' during shutdown

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told lawmakers in a hearing Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is “disintegrating” as it remains unfunded by Congress.

By Hannah Grabenstein

WATCH: OMB Director Vought defends military spending boost in Trump's 2027 budget request

An effort to ramp up U.S. weapons production and build more ships, planes and drones will require a massive upfront investment, President Donald Trump's budget director told a House committee Wednesday.

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought at the White House

Judge extends order barring the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the shutdown

A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown, saying that labor unions were likely to prevail on their claims that the cuts were arbitrary and politically motivated.

By Janie Har, Associated Press

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Vought talks to reporters on Capitol Hill

Federal workforce shutdown cuts will 'probably' exceed 10,000, Vought says

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said in an interview Wednesday on “The Charlie Kirk Show” that many more workforce cuts, known was RIFS or reductions-in-force plans, are planned as long as the shutdown continues.

By Associated Press

'RIFs have begun.' Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

By Seung Min Kim, Stephen Groves, Associated Press

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers in the ongoing government shutdown.

Read the full memo directing federal agencies to weigh mass layoffs if the government shuts down

By Liz Landers

A letter sent Wednesday indicates that the Trump administration is giving agencies leeway to launch more mass firings through the reduction-in-force mechanism used by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in slashing the federal workforce.

Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were troubled by the disappearance of data sets from government websites after President Donald Trump began his second term.

Trump administration plans to ask Congress to defund PBS, NPR

By Hannah Grabenstein

PBS CEO Paula Kerger said that the loss of funding would devastate local stations, "particularly smaller and rural stations who rely on federal funding for a larger portion of their budgets.”…

WATCH: State Department holds news briefing as DOGE staffer made head of foreign assistance

By Matthew Lee, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

A senior U.S. official said Tuesday the Republican administration has appointed Musk lieutenant Jeremy Lewin as acting head of all foreign assistance at the State Department. Lewin is an associate of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team.