President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget faced a tough grilling from Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday.

Efforts to impeach Donald Trump for a third time are ramping up as he begins his second term as president. Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email. The renewed push for Donald Trump's impeachment underscores the deep political divisions in the country and the ongoing fallout from his campaign.

It’s looking like "thumbs up" for Russ Vought in the Senate, where Republicans are preparing to confirm him to lead the White House budget office despite his reputation for withholding congressionally-approved funding.

Russ Vought faces questioning during his confirmation about him wanting to make some federal employees more accountable to the president than to the bureaucracy.

Project 2025 contributing author Russell Vought is slated to resume his former role as Office of Management and Budget director following Senate approval Wednesday afternoon. Vought, 48 ...

After Trump's defeat, Vought founded the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank. In speeches he made in 2023 and 2024, Vought described how he helped create legal justifications to prevent military leaders and government lawyers from obstructing Trump's executive actions, ProPublica reported.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director is declining to commit to doling out congressionally approved funds, specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

President Donald Trump’s pick for budget director faced another series of questions over presidential power to withhold government funding.

The OMB is like the government’s central nervous system – it, and its director, are at the center of pretty much everything.

That roped Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham into the heated back and forth, who impressed on Vought that he did not have attorney-client privilege to evade a line of questioning as some of Trump’s other nominees did. “I am not claiming a privilege, Senator,” Vought said.

President Donald Trump is picking from his most loyal supporters as he creates his Cabinet and appoints others to key roles within his administration.

Much of the $1.8 billion was found in a bank account only ever existed on paper, but legislators are left puzzled over how the mistake happened under Treasurer Curtis Loftis.