The Trump administration has plans to advance its desired spending cuts even if Congress won’t cooperate, the head of the White House budget office said in an interview Sunday.
Russ Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, described the White House’s plans to use “executive tools” if necessary to cut federal spending. Vought’s comments to CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday came as the administration is pushing Congress to formalize some of the cuts made by the DOGE government-slashing operation through a “rescissions” bill.
Asked whether the administration intends to ask Congress for approval for all the cuts done by DOGE, Vought replied, “We might. We want to see how this first bill does. We want to make sure it’s actually passed.” It represents the “first of many rescissions bills,” he said.
Beyond using that process to formalize cuts through Congress, Vought said, “we have executive tools.”
