President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government. The Office of Personnel Management was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and is the equivalent of the government's human resources departent.
A two-page OMB memo falsely claims that the president can refuse to spend money on programs authorized by Congress
Donald Trump promised to do everything he could to challenge a Nixon-era impoundment law. The OMB's grant freeze is likely just the first step.
Most Americans like the Trump tax cuts. Now, Congress must decide what taxpayers would give up in order to keep them.
The matter was so important that it was a central issue in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when Parliament and its allies forced the abdication of King James II and installed in his place King William and Queen Mary. The ascension of the dual monarchs was contingent upon their accepting the English Bill of Rights.
Donald Trump wants to abolish income tax, cut corporate taxes, eliminate taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security benefits, and impose tariffs to boost the US economy.
Robert F Kennedy Jr is the latest of Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet picks to be grilled by Senators as he vies to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The 71-year-old began facing the Senate Finance Committee at 10 a.
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.
As a presidential candidate last year, Donald Trump declared that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) did not divert more of the state’s limited water supply to farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires. And if we don’t give him the money to put out his fires, he’s got problems.”