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turbinetree

(26,419 posts)
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:13 PM Jul 23

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

The Trump administration must follow the law and restore a database for federal spending.

By Jessica Corbett — July 23, 2025

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 a statement. "So this case turned on a straightforward point: The administration must follow the law."

The nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, represented by CREW lawyers and the Public Citizen Litigation Group, sued the Office of Management and Budget and OMB Director Russell Vought in April for taking down the database the previous month. That suit and another from the Protect Democracy Project were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/judge-rules-trump-cant-hide-how-taxpayer

Where's the money Vought...................where's the money traitor...........you have two days................not three not four but two days..........and if you cant follow the law lock your ass up.............

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turbinetree

(26,419 posts)
3. From the article it reads so...........they have to account for the money every two days............
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:29 PM
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Irish_Dem

(72,738 posts)
4. The only reason for Trump to hide something is because he is committing a crime or wrong doing.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 04:55 AM
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