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What do Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy plan to do with DOGE?

Musk wants to slash government spending by a third, and Ramaswamy wants to cut 75% of the federal workforce. Can they?

Al Jazeera

Trump’s pick for budget head worked on Project 2025 – and wants to bypass the US Senate

Russell Vought led the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term and is pushing for a workaround to install president-elect’s picks

The Guardian - US

Trump makes flurry of choices including labor secretary and CDC chief

President-elect picks Fox News personalities and key loyalists as he looks to fill crucial agency and advisory roles

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Vought picked for repeat performance at Trump's budget office - Roll Call

Russ Vought, the hard-driving budget director from President-elect Trump’s first term, will be nominated for a second stint in the job.

Roll Call

Musk and Ramaswamy want to force federal workers back to the office. Economists aren’t convinced.

More than half of federal workers work in person full-time

The Independent UK

Massive veterans budget gap rips hole in appropriations process - Roll Call

The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing a $15 billion budget shortfall this fiscal year and next. Congressional Republicans are crying foul.

Roll Call

Next U.S. census will have new boxes for 'Middle Eastern or North African,' 'Latino'

Biden officials approved proposals for the U.S. census and federal surveys to change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity and to add a checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African."

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‘Really formative’: Rep. Nikki Budzinski on being an intern - Roll Call

“It really started when I was a senior in high school,” the Democratic congresswoman says of her political career.

Roll Call

Spending deal done, though final action could slip past deadline - Roll Call

House GOP and Biden administration negotiators reached a fiscal 2024 Homeland Security spending deal Monday night.

Roll Call

Biden’s support from Democrats held steady in Senate, fell in GOP-led House

Biden's Democratic support on votes was unchanged in the Senate but dropped in the GOP-led House last year, CQ Roll Call Vote Studies found.

Roll Call

Biden Threatens To Veto Standalone Israel Aid Bill

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said the bill, backed by House of Representatives Republicans, is "another cynical political maneuver."

International Business Times

OMB chief worried about shutdown even as funding talks progress - Roll Call

A top White House official said Friday that she is “not optimistic” about avoiding a partial government shutdown starting after Jan. 19.

Roll Call

The US is racing ahead in its bid to control artificial intelligence – why is the EU so far behind?

Washington is laying down rules for the use of seemingly mundane AI that could, in fact, be incredibly dangerous, says professor of philosophy Seth Lazar

The Guardian - UK

Biden Threatens To Veto GOP Spending Bill That Would 'Cut' Amtrak Funding to Double Pre-Pandemic Levels

Amtrak has historically received $2 billion in federal subsidies each year. Under Republicans' "draconian" cuts, they'd receive over $5 billion next year.

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Is OMB Stacking the Deck for More Progressive Cost-Benefit Analysis?

The Biden Administration is revising the rules for how agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses, and some CBA experts have expressed concerns.

Tribune News Service

Trump says he’ll restore presidential ‘impoundment’ authority

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to roll back the “impoundment” provisions of the landmark 1974 budget law in order to give presidents more power to withhold funds appropriated by Congress.

Roll Call

Trump says he'll restore presidential 'impoundment' authority - Roll Call

Former President Donald Trump vowed to roll back "impoundment" law to give presidents more power to withhold funds appropriated by Congress.

Salon

Russ Vought: GOP's far-right mastermind

How onetime budget wonk Russ Vought joined the culture war — and built a strategic plan for conservatives in exile

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The Independent UK

Who's who in the debt limit fight: Meet the four negotiators who could save the US from default

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are turning to a select group of negotiators to help broker a deal to increase the nation’s borrowing authority and avoid the economic carnage that would ensue if a deal is not reached soon

Roll Call

Biden names Neera Tanden as White House domestic policy chief - Roll Call

President Joe Biden named Neera Tanden, a top source of GOP criticism, to be his top domestic policy adviser.

WEKU

Changing how U.S. forms ask about race and ethnicity is complicated. Here's why

How your race and ethnicity are reported for the U.S. census, federal surveys and other forms may change. That could affect data used to redraw voting maps, enforce civil rights and guide research.

Reason

My Comment on OMB's Proposed New "MENA" Racial Classification

I submitted this comment to OMB. I am the author of the recent book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America (Bombardier Books 2022). This comment is in opposition to the proposal to create a new MENA racial classification. The most obvious problem is that "Middle East and…

Reason

My Comment on the OMB's Proposal to Turn "Hispanic" into a Race

The federal Office of Management and Budget has requested comments on several proposals to change the official federal racial and ethnic classifications. One proposal is to merge the ethnic question (are you Hispanic/Latino or not?) with the racial one (are you black/African American, white, Asian American, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander?),…

The Independent UK

US government ponders the meaning of race and ethnicity

Americans have long had an intense conversation about what race and ethnicity says about who they are

Axios

White House: Federal agencies have 30 days to remove TikTok from devices

The ban follows similar actions from Canada, the EU and Taiwan.

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