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

The White House has argued that restoring the website would lead to the divulging of sensitive information.

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought testifies in Washington on June 25, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

A federal judge on July 21 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, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 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.