""A progressive good government nonprofit has accused the Trump administration of not fully complying with a court order to publish information about how federal funding is distributed. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asserted in a Sept. 19 filing that the Office of Management and Budget is circumventing a court order that required it to resume publishing data on apportionments, which details when appropriated agency funding becomes available, by adding footnotes that the spending is subject to \"spend plans.\" But those plans aren't public.""
""For many apportionments, OMB is stating in legally binding footnotes that the funds 'are available for obligation consistent with the latest agreed-upon spend plan' between the agency and OMB, or using similar language that makes the funds available according to the terms of spend plans," according to the filing. "Yet OMB is not including the spend plans in the Public Apportionments Database.""
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington alleges the Office of Management and Budget is circumventing a court order by attaching footnotes that make apportionments contingent on non-public "spend plans." OMB removed the public apportionments website in March, prompting a lawsuit and a July court order to republish the data. OMB resumed posting apportionments in August after the D.C. Circuit denied an appeal pause. CREW identified at least 131 of 2,245 apportionment documents approved between March 24 and Sept. 5 that reference undisclosed spend plans and asked the court to compel OMB to post those plans for public transparency.
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