After Donald Trump's budget office hid federal spending data, it fell to a federal court to tell the White House “to stop violating the law!”

Congress began requiring the White House budget office to publicly post apportionment information. Trump officials pulled down the website in March.

The Trump administration violated federal law by shutting down an online database that allowed the public to track government spending, a federal judge ruled Monday. The judge rejected what he called the administration's "extravagant and unsupported theory of presidential power.