Despite claiming during his campaign that he knew nothing about Project 2025, Trump has filled important government roles with people linked to the plan, including Russell Vought, a key architect who now heads the Office of Management and Budget,

The eight-page memorandum, issued on Wednesday afternoon by the Office of Management and Budget, instructs federal agencies to prepare for "large-scale reductions in force" as part of President Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" initiative.

The Trump administration moved forward Wednesday with its plans to conduct large-scale layoffs across agencies, the latest move to downsize the federal workforce. The Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management issued a memo to agency leaders with guidance on how to conduct their reductions in force,

Traumatized. That’s how Donald Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, has said he wants federal employees to feel. “When they wake up in the morning,

Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is ordering federal agencies to formulate plans for a reduction in workforce, likely terminating many thousands of government employees in addition to the ones who have already been fired since Trump took office five weeks ago.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from implementing the type of sweeping freeze on grant and loan programs proposed in a memo the Office of Management and Budget released in late January.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that prohibits agencies from halting the flow of federal funds awarded to the states through grants, contracts or other financial assistance based on a memo from the Office of Management and Budget issued during President Trump’s first days in office.

Traumatized. That’s how Donald Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, has said he wants federal employees to feel. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work,

Donald Trump is preparing for “large-scale” mass layoffs for the federal workforce. The Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management sent out notices on Wednesday to federal agencies telling them to prepare for staff reductions.

The overriding questions of President Donald Trump’s second term are how dramatically he wants to cut government, and how far he’ll be able to go before the courts or Congress stops him.

The judge’s ruling, though preliminary, includes a sharp rebuke to Trump’s attempt to seize power traditionally held by other branches of government.

As the Trump administration enters its eighth week, the president and Musk have begun to encounter increased pushback in the courts and in Congress, prompting the president to post on social media that Musk should step back and allow cabinet secretaries to carry out the task of downsizing their departments and agencies.