Specific questions arose around the status of essential benefits like Medicare, SNAP, and student loan assistance and how they would be affected. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB ...

Bobby Kogan, the senior director of Federal Budget Policy at American Progress who previously served in the Biden-Harris ...

The order came from the Office of Management and Budget in a memo to government ... However, the memo made clear that Social Security and Medicare payments would not be affected by the temporary ...

According to a two-page memo from Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Matthew J ... explicitly specifies that Social Security, Medicare and other “payments to individuals ...

Yet hours later, the Office of Management and Budget released a follow-up memo ... would not be affected by the freeze — nor would Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security payments.

It exempts assistance received directly by individuals, including Medicare and Social Security ... must abide by the order, but the Office of Management and Budget has broad power over the ...

Vaeth, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, instructs federal ... “construed” to affect Social Security or Medicare recipients, and also says the federal ...

A sweeping directive from the Office of Management and Budget ... such as Social Security and Medicare, would not be affected. Still, the budget office appears to be scrutinizing a wide variety ...

Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, states that OMB memorandum ... freeze would affect Social Security and Medicare. He characterized the pause as a ...