Topic: OMB

Former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought testifies before a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his second nomination to be OMB director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025. (JEMAL COUNTESS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s shadow president

Andy Kroll - ProPublica
The 2025 Government Shutdown enters Day 11 on Saturday amid announcements for permanent firings of over 4,000 furloughed workers. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

The federal workforce purge begins

CK Smith
Brett Kavanaugh (L) takes the podium after US President Trump to speak during his swearing-in ceremony as Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court at the White House in Washington, DC October 8, 2018. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

A major part of Project 2025 is failing

Heather Digby Parton
Former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought testifies before a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his second nomination to be OMB director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025. (JEMAL COUNTESS/AFP via Getty Images)

Project 2025 head confirmed as OMB chief

Griffin Eckstein
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought arrives for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's OMB sparks "five-alarm fire"

Nicholas Liu
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, August 22, 2024. (OLIVIER TOURON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump makes the GOP touch the third rail

Heather Digby Parton
Neera Tanden, President Joe Bidens nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is sworn in to testify during a Senate Committee on the Budget hearing on Capitol Hill on February 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images)

Joe pulls Tanden nomination over tweets

Igor Derysh
Neera Tanden and Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Manchin to vote against Biden pick

Sophia Tesfaye
Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Van Andel Arena on March 28, 2019 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Getty/Scott Olson)

Trump muscles in on government agencies

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
A CSX Corp train burns after derailment in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, February 16, 2015. (Reuters/Marcus Constantino)

America is literally on fire

David Dayen