12 entries in the ledger
A White House budget office proposal, published in draft form in May 2026 and reported on by ProPublica on September 29, would bar recipients of federal grant money from using those funds for voter registration drives or...
Senate appropriators announced a bipartisan stopgap on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026 funding the government through Dec. 11 and blocking, for that period, the Office of Management and Budget rule requiring federal grants to be...
In a July 15, 2026 court filing in a class action over canceled clean-energy awards, an Energy Department lawyer wrote that 284 terminated grants were not cut for "any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or...
The Office of Management and Budget’s proposed rule replacing its “uniform guidance” for federal grants drew 496,769 public comments before the 45-day window closed July 13, 2026, Roll Call reported on July 20. The rule...
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston ruled Friday, July 17, 2026 that the Trump administration cannot rely on a grant "termination clause" tied to "agency priorities" to cancel billions of dollars in federal...
According to court documents filed July 13, 2026, the Trump administration rescinded a roughly $10 billion freeze on child care subsidies and social services funding directed at five Democratic-led states — California...
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, part of the White House Office of Management and Budget, released its 2026 Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda identifying 702 deregulatory actions, up from 482 in the...
As the Department of Government Efficiency approached the July 4, 2026 termination date set by President Trump's January 2025 executive order, OMB Director Russell Vought told a House Appropriations subcommittee on June...
At a June 30, 2026 House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said the administration has "no plans to do kind of a closing DOGE report," responding to a request...
On October 7, 2025, Axios reported on a draft Office of Management and Budget memo arguing that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not automatically guarantee back pay to workers furloughed during the...