Judge Rules Trump Admin Broke Law, Orders Restoring of Public Funding Tracking Database

A federal judge on Monday ruled against the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and said that it violated federal law by removing a public funding tracker website. In a 60-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan wrote that a public database run by OMB should be reinstated and that a directive ordering its removal violated the law because Congress passed legislation mandating that OMB make decisions available to the public within two business days. “There is nothing unconstitutional about Congress requiring the Executive Branch to inform the public of how it is apportioning the public’s money. Defendants are therefore required to stop violating the law!” Sullivan wrote....