The “skinny budget” proposal — so named because it lacks much of the granular specificity integral to actually allocating money for the federal government — would shrink DOL’s discretionary budget from its current $13.3 billion to $8.6 billion for next fiscal year, your host reported for Pro subscribers.

Under President Donald Trump, budget chief Russell Vought has sought to assert more unilateral control over government spending than the White House usually has.