Judge rules Trump administration broke law in takedown of public funding tracker

Trump administration ordered to restore Public Apportionments database

The Office of Management and Budget has until today to turn the lights back on one of its key public spending transparency websites. In March, OMB shut down its Congressionally-mandated database that tracks the apportionment of funds to individual agencies, saying it didn’t believe it should have to provide “predecisional” information. On Monday, a federal judge found that decision violated the law, and gave the Trump administration until 10 a.m…

Judge Rules Trump Can't Hide How Taxpayer Money Is Spent

Advocacy groups that sued U.S. President Donald Trump's administration this spring for taking offline a legally mandated website that details federal spending celebrated on Monday after a federal judge ordered the restoration of the Public Apportionments Database. "The law is clear that the federal government must make its appropriations decisions public," said Adina Rosenbaum, Public Citizen Litigation Group attorney and counsel on the case, in…

Experts raise red flags as White House makes concerning U-turn on vital public resource: 'Doesn't want people to know'

The Trump administration has once again reversed a major decision regarding vital climate-based assessments, and many experts are sounding the alarm.    What's happening? In June, the Trump administration revealed that it was shutting down the U.S. Global Change Research Program's website, globalchange.gov, which hosted the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessments as well as other climate research.  This decision removed public acce…

After the White House hid spending data, judge orders Team Trump to follow the law

After Donald Trump's budget office hid federal spending data, it fell to a federal court to tell the White House “to stop violating the law!”

Fed Up Judge Orders Trump to ‘Stop Violating The Law!’ in Brutal Ruling for Hiding Taxpayer Spending

A federal judge just hit Donald Trump with a blunt message: “Stop violating the law!” In a searing ruling on Monday, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan found that Trump’s White House illegally shut down a public website meant to show how federal agencies are spending taxpayer money. “There is nothing unconstitutional about Congress requiring the Executive Branch to inform the public of how it is apportioning the public’s money,” Sullivan wrote i…

Judge blasts Trump over funding blackout: ‘Stop violating the law!’

White House illegally took down website data showing how taxpayer data is spent, court finds