OMB acting director Russell Vought made his comments to reporters after testifying on Capitol Hill for the first time since before the impeachment saga. He had previously defied a congressional subpoena.
Pete Buttigieg has talked about reducing America's deficit but not provided an explanation for how.
President Trump's 2021 budget proposal will demonstrate the arc of his first term as he abandons promises to balance the budget and make Mexico pay for the wall, while pulling back on attempts to slash foreign aid across the board in the wake of his impeachment over alleged pressure campaign on Ukraine.
The veto threat from the White House over House Democrats' earthquake aid package for Puerto Rico is the latest skirmish between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats over disaster assistance to the U.S. territory.
Lawmakers confronted administration officials at closed-door briefings Wednesday about the response to the coronavirus, including lack of communication with state and local officials and the need for more funding.
The administration announced quarantines and major travel restrictions that officials said were meant to limit contagion.
Behind some of the most controversial decisions of the Trump administration -- including delaying military aid to Ukraine -- is Mark Paoletta, the head lawyer at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
In December, the House overwhelmingly voted in favor of the pact after Democrats negotiated with the White House on several revisions.
As Puerto Rico reels from devastating earthquakes and aftershocks, the island is still waiting on more than $18 billion from the federal government in hurricane relief for storms that happened more than two years ago. Democrats are already questioning how the Trump administration will respond to the latest catastrophe.
Trump this weekend boasted that the US had just spent $2 trillion in military equipment, saying the US would use it to hit Iran “fast and hard.” But his comments are a gross mischaracterization of military spending. He has also recently said the Air Force has all new planes, which is false. There has been a big run up in defense spending under the Trump administration but the president has made a number of questionable claims about the nation's military readiness.
A provision in Congress' year-end spending bill would have allowed 'dreamers' to be employed by the House. But at the last minute, the White House demanded its removal, threatening a veto, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) agreed.
In final negotiations on a mammoth spending package to avert a government shutdown, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin demanded that Democrats remove language that would have required the White House to move quickly to release Ukraine defense money. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acceded to the demand.
The new deal is a landmark achievement for the Trump administration and for House Democrats, who negotiated labor enforcement standards strong enough to win the support of key labor unions. Unions blamed the existing North American Free Trade Agreement for hollowing out America's manufacturing sector.
Massive grab-bag spending bill passes House, Senate vote expected ahead of Friday midnight shutdown deadline.
The president, speaking at the NATO 70th anniversary summit in London, said he was under no deadline to reach a compromise.
The president says the two nations are "presiding over a massive devaluation of their currencies. which is not good for our farmers."
House Democrats and the Trump administration may be days away from finalizing agreement on a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada that would replace NAFTA. The top Mexican trade negotiator told reporters following high-level meetings in Washington and Ottawa that an agreement could be struck next week.
Career OMB employee Mark Sandy told congressional impeachment investigators that two colleagues at the White House budget office had resigned while voicing concerns over the hold on Ukraine aid.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats and the Trump administration are 'within range' of a deal on a trade pact to replace NAFTA. She says Democrats are waiting for final language from the Trump administration. The development follows months of secretive negotiations that proceeded even as the Democrats conducted public impeachment hearings against President Trump.
