President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director is declining to commit to doling out congressionally approved funds, specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

If confirmed, Mr. Vought will be at the center of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.

The Senate’s confirmation hearing of Russell Vought, one of Washington’s staunchest advocates for cutting spending, offered a preview Wednesday of the bruising spending wars likely to consume

If confirmed again as White House budget director, Russell Vought would likely do more than oversee spending, policy and regulations. Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as budget director in Donald Trump's first term,

Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump ... specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine.Vought faced questions at his confirmation hearing over his tenure as director of the Office and ...

Russell Vought, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

The president-elect's nominee for White House budget director reiterated that Trump believes law protecting Congress’ funding power is unconstitutional.

Shalanda Young, outgoing director of Biden’s Office of Management and Budget, spoke to The 19th about her historic tenure, her approach to leadership — and her concerns about what lies ahead.

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.”

Pam Bondi was pressed about the 2020 election and Trump's influence over the Justice Department, while Marco Rubio struck a more measured tone on the Russia-Ukraine war.

Young may have been the most powerful low-profile person in the Biden administration. And while President Joe Biden leaves office with a dismal approval rating and a mixed legacy, she departs as the director of the Office of Management and Budget with a record with more wins than losses.

John Ratcliffe would be one of the few national security officials from the first Trump administration to join the second