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White House OMB Director Russell Vought: DHS ‘disintegrating’

White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought at a Budget Committee hearing on April 16, 2026. (House Budget Committee)

By Alexander Bolton

White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought told senators at a Budget Committee hearing Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is “disintegrating” because Congress has not funded the department since its appropriations lapsed Feb. 14.

Vought told senators that the situation at the embattled department is becoming dire as he and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin scramble to keep federal workers from quitting in droves.

“There is no money for the entirety of the Department of Homeland Security,” Vought told Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

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