OMB Sued for Shutting Down Federal Spending Transparency Site

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget was hit with a lawsuit Monday that alleges it and Director Russell Vought are violating OMB’s congressional mandate to publicly post information detailing federal spending.

OMB’s website displaying documents related to apportionments of congressionally-allocated funds went dark last month without explanation, despite federal law requiring the office to operate such a website, the nonprofit Protect Democracy Project alleged in its complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Under the Antideficincy Act, the president is required to provide federal agencies’ congressionally-appropriated funds in installments. Congress in the Consolidated ...