Responding to charges that President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill would cut Medicaid coverage for millions of ...

Following weeks of ripping DOGE and President Donald Trump on X, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) turned up his social media ...

Joni Ernst took questions in a town hall about what some have called Medicaid cuts in House-passed reconciliation legislation ...

One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.” Russell Vought stated on June 1, 2025, in an interview on ...

Elon Musk may have “left Washington” last week, but the Department of Government Efficiency won’t miss a step. That’s because Musk was never running DOGE in the first place. I’m not suggesting that ...

The two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget actually knows how to use the government to dismantle it.

Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an ...

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Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testifies before the House Appropriations Committee at the U.S. Capitol on June 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty ...

Driving the news: Vought said on CNN's "State of the Union" that the administration "might" send all of DOGE's cuts to ...

Russell T. Vought, leader of the Office of Management ... including those who investigated tax fraud. And Washington would restrict aid to the poor, requiring Americans to work in exchange for ...

The man who built much of that infrastructure is Russell Vought, an architect of Trump ... intellectual lodestar of the revolution upending Washington. Cortellessa is a TIME senior correspondent ...