Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought arrives to testify during a hearing of the House Budget Committee about President Trump's budget for Fiscal Year 2021, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Until a federal judge stops it, the “pause” in grants and loans will be really bad news for poor people in need of Medicaid or food stamps.
You are going to swear an oath to the Constitution, not to Donald Trump, just like any other confirmed official," Slotkin reminded Vought
President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, as Trump and his allies have argued he can block government funds that Congress has already authorized, despite a federal law forbidding it.
The order to pause nearly all U.S. financial assistance for executive branch review poses a constitutional test of the president’s impoundment powers.
Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a section titled “Terminating the Green New Deal.” As presidential directives go, this one initially seemed like a joke. The Green New Deal exists mostly in the dreams of climate activists; it has never been fully enacted into law.
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.
Russell Vought, Trump’s pick to head the Office ... Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut noted that the Supreme Court declared the law constitutional four decades ago.
President Trump signed an executive order calling for a federal "funding freeze," and Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) subsequently issued
Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee for budget chief, has a plan: cut taxes for the wealthy, eliminate regulations on corporate power, and slash spending on government programs the rest of the country depends on.
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