Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley tells reporters at a weekly news conference the morning after an Office of Management and Budget memo pausing federal grants and other funding that Senate Democrats would stand in the way of the sweeping power grab,

Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) joins Andrea Mitchell to analyze Russell Vought as the President's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Merkley emphasized the need for careful scrutiny of Vought's priorities and their potential impact.

As the White House rescinds a move to pause federal aid, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley tells KTVZ News he believes the initial move was likely unconstitutional. The Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded a sweeping freeze on most federal loans and grants.

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Russell Vought, likely to return as director of the Office of Management and Budget, echoed the former House speaker and Trump foe's criticism of the social safety net.

Russ Vought, an architect of Project 2025, said he’s “very proud” of Clinton-era welfare reform that devastated some of the nation’s most vulnerable people. U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget told lawmakers Wednesday that he’s “proud” of the impacts of Clinton-era welfare reform,

Democrats on Wednesday grilled Office of Management and Budget (OMB ... result in the illegal impoundment of federal funding. Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, raised the issue at the top of the hearing on Vought ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday blasted Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee to again lead the U.S. Office of Management ... the Senate Committee on the Budget — including ranking member Jeff Merkley of Oregon as well as ...

Senate Democrats want to pause Russell Vought’s nomination for Office of Management and Budget director until the Trump administration resumes distribution of federal financial assistance, but Republicans don’t plan to oblige.

Less than two days after issuing an order to freeze funding on federal assistance that pays for health and child care, the Trump Administration is rescinding

The flap over the Trump White House’s temporary freeze on some discretionary federal funding was the first controversy of the second Trump administration that reminded observers of the early days of the first Trump administration.