9 hours ago · Russell Vought’s nomination to be White House budget director will advance to the Senate floor despite a last-minute move by Senate Democrats to boycott his committee vote. Republican members of ...

3 days ago · Federal aid freeze may become first Trump case before Supreme Court The order to pause nearly all U.S. financial assistance for executive branch review poses a constitutional test of the president’s impoundment powers. ... Russell (Russ) Vought, Trump’s choice to lead OMB, has argued that the impoundment law is unconstitutional. Courts and ...

10 hours ago · Democrats note that the Supreme Court has already validated the law and worry that Mr. Trump and Mr. Vought will illegally impound funds, which the Government Office of Accountability found they ...

10 hours ago · Senate Republicans advanced the nomination of Russell Vought to lead the White House budget office as Democrats boycotted the meeting to protest the administration’s recent efforts to freeze ...

2 days ago · Russell Vought, U.S. President Trump's nominee to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testifies before a Senate Budget Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in ...

2 days ago · Donald Trump and OMB Director nominee Russell Vought. ... It tees up a massive legal battle that will test whether this Supreme Court is willing to put any restraints on a president who seeks to ...

1 day ago · Based on a radical interpretation of Article II, Vought claims that the 1974 law is unconstitutional, and he hopes the conservative majority on the Supreme Court will strike it down.

1 day ago · President Donald Trump and Office of Management and Budget director nominee Russell Vought want courts to rule that the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional. Evan Vucci via Associated Press ... Control Act and stated in an op-ed written with his former DOGE co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy that “we believe the current Supreme Court would likely ...

2 days ago · President Donald Trump’s dramatic pause of federal grants and loans is queuing up a Supreme Court showdown over the Constitution that will test the court’s recently muscular commitment to curb ...

2 days ago · Russell Vought has regularly asserted that this action by Congress was, in fact, unconstitutional. ... the purpose of the “pause” is probably to create a Supreme Court test of Vought’s ...