US Sen. Richard Blumenthal challenged President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) over his past proposals to reduce or eliminate benefits for certain veterans to save money in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system.

Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as budget director in Donald Trump's first term, has signaled he will take a more aggressive approach to helping the president-elect carry out his agenda of shrinking the federal government.

President Donald Trump’s new tool for reshaping the federal government is a relatively obscure agency, the Office of Personnel Management. The agency has offered millions of federal workers eight months of salary if they voluntarily choose to leave their jobs by Feb.

The directive from the Office of Management and Budget that froze most federal funds on Monday had not gone through the usual approval process.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney (2nd District), U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes (5th District), Gov. Ned Lamont and other government officials gathered to discuss the legality of President Donald Trump's memo pausing federal funding on Wednesday.

The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.

The new memorandum, just two sentences long, will allow agencies to continue their normal operations after uncertainty over the impact of the initial directive caused widespread chaos across government. It followed a temporary injunction by a federal judge that prevented the original Office of Management and Budget memo from taking effect.

Less than 24 hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s move to freeze federal grant funding, the Office of Management and Budget suddenly rescinded its directive. But confusion and concern lingered after the White House said Wednesday it still intends to freeze some funds,

A temporary freeze on federal grants, loans and other financial assistance for veterans programs announced Tuesday by the Trump administration was lifted overnight by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The healthcare system for millions of low-income Americans and rafts of other programs were thrown into disarray Tuesday after President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on federal funding, a move

Supporters of climate, infrastructure, mortgage, tech, health, veterans' and other projects expressed alarm as tens of thousands of programs appeared possibly at risk.

An announcement late Monday from the Office of Management and Budget panicked military family members who feared losing access to food assistance and Medicare for dependents with special needs.