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June 17, 2026
Department of Listeria and Preventable Childhood Illness
Vought’s attempts to shred our social safety net also comes at a moment when Americans are increasingly at risk of infection from foodborne illnesses and vaccine-preventable diseases because of Trump’s “health” policy agenda.
June 16, 2026
RELEASE: Hal Duncan’s Nomination Hearing Confirms He’ll Be Vought’s Lackey At OMB
The confirmation hearing of OMB nominee Hal Duncan confirmed he will be henchman executing Trump and Vought’s agenda.
June 15, 2026
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Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid
The Trump administration has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House’s careless approach to major disaster declarations.
June 15, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Vampire Vought is Sucking Americans’ Lifeblood
OMB Director Russell Vought is weaponizing federal funding for child care, food, and Medicaid in blue cities and states, seriously endangering people’s lives and livelihoods.
June 15, 2026
Questions for OMB Deputy Director Nominee Hal Duncan
The American people deserve to know whether Duncan will work to counter this villainy, or be yet another henchman carrying out Vought and Trump’s harmful, and often illegal, policy priorities. To that end, we’ve drafted a series of questions that Duncan ought to answer under oath before any Senator even considers his nomination.
June 10, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
The Perils of Vought's Climate Purge
OMB Director Russell Vought is playing political games with people’s lives and homes as the climate crisis continues to wreak havoc on communities.
June 03, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Wreck-It Russ Risks Breaking the Public Health System
OMB Director Russell Vought is holding federal funds for essential programs like public health hostage in order to punish Trump’s political enemies, the consequences to people’s lives be damned.
June 02, 2026
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How Trump Undermined Our Hurricane Readiness and Response Capacity
The White House’s reactionary policy choices are leaving our society ill-equipped to plan for, withstand, and bounce back from worsening extreme weather, including hurricanes.
June 02, 2026
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TRACKER: Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
We are tracking how the Trump administration’s callous policy choices, before and after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering and death.
June 02, 2026
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Democrats Can’t Let Trump Off the Hook When the Next Big Hurricane Hits
The White House has relentlessly undermined disaster readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.
June 01, 2026
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RELEASE: Trump Has Left the United States Grossly Ill-Prepared for Hurricane Season
The policy storm before (and after) the physical storm must not be ignored.
May 27, 2026
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Personal Information at Risk
The United States federal government knows a lot about you. If you’ve ever applied for federal student aid, the Department of Education has records of your income and assets. The Social Security Administration begins collecting information from the moment your parents apply for your Social Security number at birth, adds new data every time Social Security taxes are deducted from your paychecks, and continues to monitor you until the day you die.
May 26, 2026
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V for Vampire Vought's Vendetta
This report summarizes how OMB Director Russell Vought is weaponizing federal funding for education, food, health, transportation, and other life-affirming programs to punish and coerce Trump’s political enemies, hurting millions of Americans in the process.
May 19, 2026 | Talking Points Memo
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Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar
Members of the opposition party need to start connecting the dots between the OMB director’s actions and their constituents’ preventable suffering.
May 15, 2026
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Poison and Plunder
From gutting clean air rules to waging a war no one asked for, the Trump administration is showing that human suffering is a core feature of this regime.