White House Scraps Public Spending Database | Drudge Retort

Saturday, April 12, 2025

White House Scraps Public Spending Database

The White House budget office has taken down its website where approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws are statutorily required to be posted for public viewing, a move likely to face major blowback from members of Congress and government watchdogs.

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New Lawsuit: The Trump admin unlawfully took down an online apportionments database, hiding how it spends taxpayer money from the public, @CREWCrew says in federal court. They're repped by @Public_Citizen. Doc www.citizen.org/wp-content/u ...

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-- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) April 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM

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"This is in direct violation of federal law," said Faith Williams, director of the effective and accountable government program at the Project on Government Oversight, known as POGO.

"The apportionments database is a critical tool for Congress and the public to hold the executive branch accountable for its spending."

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This is that game that Donnie plays... 'hide the mushroom', I think one of his victims called it.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-12 04:18 PM

#1: The Trumpf junta will waste billions of dollars of our taxpayer dollars with little to no accountability, while enriching themselves and the oligarchs. So once again we must thank Republicans for voting in the greatest grifters of all time because they had to have a white man in the White House, despite his manifest flaws. And the Democrats lost approximately six million votes between 2020 and 2024. So much blame to go around, so little time.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-12 04:47 PM

The most corrupt administration in the history of America.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-12 04:51 PM

Is there anyone on the planet that does not know that the Trumpf-Putin-Netanyahu-Musk Axis of Evil is the worst nexus of blackguards to afflict the masses since WWII?

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-12 05:20 PM

#4

The engine now is the same as back then; rwing populists propagandized into race-hating white nationalist voters... and having a vicious, evil, and thankfully incompetent Cult Leader to incite them.

Add the billions in funding from the wealthy industrialists who now regulate themselves by owning the politicians... and you have today's America.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-12 05:55 PM

aka The Fourth Reich.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-12 06:48 PM

Fat Donnie the ---- doesn't have the guts to shoot himself

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-12 07:38 PM

He wants to cut spending but not reveal where or why?

Corruption is the motive in my opinion.

That and controlling the release of information gives him more freedom to falsify the amounts "saved".

#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-04-13 11:59 AM

"This is in direct violation of federal law,"

That's a feature, not a bug
He's running the government like a business.
A business that has calculated the profit of non-compliance with the law far outweighs the administrative civil and criminal cost.

And, since he is running the country like a business, then he does run the Courts and all that too. The CEO runs the whole show.
Trump is giving Republicans what they have always wanted.
That's why they aren't doing anything to stop it.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-13 12:05 PM

So Donny Doll Hands can hide the billions he is giving to Elmo.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-14 10:11 AM

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