Donald Trump will take the oath of office in the midst of a growing feud among congressional Republicans over how to deliver on his policy agenda.
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.
Loyalists are lined up to help push an economic and social agenda that is sure to hearten his supporters and fuel an even deeper disdain among his detractors.
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. government’s fiscal health is bleak, Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper reported Friday, with debt and deficits set to reach record levels.
Extending the tax law that’s set to expire would add $4.6 trillion to the national debt — so some GOP lawmakers want to change the rules.
Voters rejected the failed progressive Biden-Harris agenda. But GOP populists are pushing Trump to abandon many conservative principles.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to bring down mortgage rates and make housing affordable again. His policies could do the opposite.
The threat of DOGE-led job cuts may get further backing as the president vows to require government staffers to work in-person five days a week.
More than 5 million Americans have benefited under Biden's presidency due to his student loan forgiveness policies.
He stressed he would follow the law, even as he emphasized Trump’s desire to overturn the 1974 Impoundment Control Act that requires congressional approval to rescind spending.
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.”
Republicans' renewed probe into federal telework sets the stage for how President-elect Donald Trump may approach a possible return-to-office mandate for feds.