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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...
According to NBC News reporting on July 14, 2026 — citing six people familiar with internal estimates, including three U.S. officials — the Pentagon's internal estimate of the cost of the U.S. war with Iran is $80...
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...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined on Friday, June 19, 2026 to let the administration proceed with reductions in force at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, leaving in place a preliminary...
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila of the Northern District of California ruled in mid-March 2026 that the Trump administration's refusal to request the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding from the Federal...