We just got another win in one of our lawsuits against the Trump regime.

Here are the basics:

• In February, Donald Trump put a man named Russell Vought in charge of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Vought was one of the primary architects of the infamous Project 2025 manifesto, which essentially serves as an authoritarian playbook for the Trump regime. He believes that Trump has virtually limitless power — including the power to ignore Congress.

• While its name may sound a bit dull, the Office of Management and Budget is actually one of the most critical agencies in the entire federal government because it oversees a vast amount of what the executive branch does.

• By law, OMB is required to publicly post information about the funds allocated to each federal agency (officially known as the Public Apportionments Database). But in late March — under Vought’s leadership and in clear violation of the law — OMB took that database off of its website.

• On April 8 — representing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — Public Citizen filed suit in federal court challenging OMB’s removal of the Public Apportionments Database from its website.

Yesterday, the court ruled in our favor and ordered OMB to restore the Public Apportionments Database.

The judge wrote that “there is nothing unconstitutional about Congress requiring the executive branch to inform the public of how it is apportioning the public’s money” and that the administration is “required to stop violating the law!”

MORE ABOUT TAKING THE REGIME TO COURT

The Trump administration is unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and unlawfully dismantling the federal government — our government — from Cabinet-level departments that have their own stately buildings here in Washington, D.C., to smaller agencies that go largely unnoticed as they do the routine, unheralded work that makes for a functioning country.

Public Citizen is doing everything we can — within our modest means — to fight back at every turn. It’s David and Goliath for sure, but we will never back down. Even where we haven’t (yet) notched definitive victories in court, we are slowing down the regime and making it work a lot harder in pursuit of its desire for absolute power.

This OMB case is one of 17 lawsuits we have filed (so far) against the administration since Trump returned to power. Are these lawsuits alone enough to fully defeat Trump and MAGA? Of course not. But are they a meaningful part of the pushback needed to collectively save our country? No doubt about it.

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