GAO concluded that DOT’s actions on NEVI funds violated the Impoundment Control Act, finding $2.74 billion in electric vehicle infrastructure funds were unlawfully withheld. The decision mandates the Transportation Department must continue funding the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure …
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Russell Vought, who authored Project 2025’s chapter on restructuring Executive Office and expanding presidential power, was confirmed as OMB Director on February 6, 2025 by a 53-47 Senate vote. He now implements the exact recommendations he wrote, including using the budget agency to withhold …
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Acting OMB Director Russell Vought ordered the freeze of $214 million in congressionally approved security assistance to Ukraine in July 2019 after the Trump White House pressured Ukraine’s government to investigate then-candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. On July 25, 2019, Trump made his …