Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought was grilled by both sides of the aisle over the administration’s sweeping cost-cutting plans as he testified before House appropriators Wednesday afternoon.

Vought faced a wide-ranging list of questions during a budget hearing, as lawmakers pressed him over President Trump’s latest spending cut requests, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), along with a major tax package of the president’s priorities making its way through Congress.

One area of bipartisan interest was leadership at DOGE, an effort Trump previously tapped tech billionaire Elon Musk for.

Vought said the administration was “in the midst of, with the last week or so, of establishing the leadership on an ongoing basis” following the exit of Musk. Other top officials at the department have also departed in recent days, including Steve Davids, whom Vought noted previously led the........

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