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Photo illustration by Mike McQuade; Source photographs from Alamy and Getty

Andy Kroll

An investigative reporter at ProPublica.

The Office of Management and Budget is a strange institution. People who’ve worked there for decades struggle to describe it in terms a normal person would understan

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