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Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) told The Hill Tuesday that she plans to vote for Russell Vought, ...

Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in ...

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The future of the U.S. Agency for International Development is up in the air after the Trump administration shuttered its ...

Russell Vought views American politics as a life-or-death struggle between the God-fearing right and a malevolent, secular ...

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