OMB Director Russ Vought: ‘We Are Doing Everything We Can to Make the DOGE Cuts Permanent’

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VOUGHT: “Well, you know, look, that’s for fiscal year ‘26. Fiscal year ‘26 is the full budget year. We sent up $160 billion in cuts to non-defense spending, relatively consistent with that number, and that is the lowest number since fiscal year 2017. If you adjust it for inflation, it’s the lowest since fiscal year 2000. And so, we are doing everything we can to make the DOGE cuts permanent, either through recissions, or through impoundment. Impoundment is still on the table and something we will consider. So, we have tools in the executive tool box that the president has run on that we firmly believe are at his disposal, and all of those tools are something that we’re going to be looking at over the course of the next several months. So, this is going to be playing out. It’s not going to be something that hey, we’re going to have it in one bill. It’s going to be part of a process over the next several months.”