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OMB chief Russell Vought expressed excitement that Congress appeared to be on the verge of codifying into law roughly $9 billion in cuts.
White House budget chief Russ Vought said Thursday that the administration is likely to send another rescissions package to Congress to claw back previously approved spending. Vought’s comments
Russell T. Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, said he and other administration officials wanted access to the Fed’s building in Washington.
The spending cuts package, requested by the White House, heads back to the House ahead of a Friday deadline for Trump to sign it into law.
After significantly cutting America’s humanitarian aid operations earlier this year, the Trump administration now has a surplus of food that it can’t use. What will become of it? The White House has a simple plan: incinerate it.
Sen. Thom Tillis stood on the Senate floor and warned White House aides to tread carefully as they cut foreign aid and to remember the promises they made to get a rescission bill approved by senators.
The Pentagon and U.S. military officials in Europe are working with NATO members to ship more Patriot missile systems to Ukraine and release more munitions that were briefly halted.
President Donald Trump will meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House on Monday. Trump is expected to speak with him about the United States's pending aid to Ukraine. TRUMP MEETS WITH NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL MARK RUTTE AS US SENDS MISSILES TO UKRAINE Trump said Sunday that Europe would pay for aid to Ukraine and that he would make a "major announcement" on Monday regarding Ukraine funding.