The Trump administration restored a public database that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies following a recent order by a federal appeals court.
Public access to the data was restored over the weekend, not long after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the website be restored in a unanimous ruling.
“To hear the Government tell it, the separation of powers hangs in the balance and only this Court can set things right. But when it comes to appropriations, our Constitution has made plain that congressional power is at its zenith,” U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Henderson wrote last wee
Under the apportionments process, agencies are given limited authority to spend funding allocated by Congress in installments.
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