As director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought plans to implement the most critical parts of the new Trump agenda.

Washington state lawmakers and leaders are rushing to respond to a Monday night memo from the White House budget office calling for a federal funding freeze of potentially $3 trillion.

Russell Vought has signaled he hopes to slash spending — and push the limits of presidential power to achieve Trump’s agenda.

Agency heads have until Feb. 7 to deliver implementation plans, which should include details on revised telework and collective bargaining agreements.

Distribution of all federal grants and loans will be suspended at 5 p.m. Tuesday, per President Donald Trump’s direction. An Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo that was released last night revealed that the impacted agencies must submit the appropriate information for their paused programs by Feb.

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

Without an answer from the federal government, the status of federal funds allocated under the Biden Administration for rebuilding the Washington Bridge remains unclear.Over the weekend, a letter from Rhode Island's Congressional Delegation to the Federal Office of Management and Budget said,

NORTH KINGSTOWN − The fate of $600 million in federal funding for Rhode Island highway projects, including the westbound Washington Bridge, is up in the air as President Donald Trump looks to halt spending on climate policies enacted by his predecessor Joe Biden.

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

President Trump's top budget office has directed agencies to pause federal loans and grants so the administration can review them.

WASHINGTON, D. C. - A freeze on federal grant and loan funding that President Donald Trump announced this week left Ohio agencies, universities, and companies that receive federal money in a state of uncertainty as they weighed how to cope with a new policy that jeopardizes billions of dollars they expected to receive.