OMB

Or O.M.B.

U.S. Government.

1. Office of Management and Budget: the division of the Executive Office of the President that prepares and administers the federal budget and improves management in the executive branch.

Example Sentences

He’s done that mainly by using OMB, the White House office that oversees spending, to control the day-to-day purse strings of federal agencies — and deliberately keeping Congress in the dark along the way.

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He also called OMB director Russell Vought “a malignant political hack External link.”

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In it, the OMB said that once the shutdown ended the government was required to pay employees who were deemed essential, such as air traffic controllers, and had been required to show up to work.

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The scope of the potential lay-offs remains unclear, but the White House has been in discussions with the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, which is headed by Vought.

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"OMB is an intrinsically powerful position, but it has almost never been wielded as such," Stern said.

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