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Cerin Lindgrensavage, a lawyer for Protect Democracy, said the administration’s late-year strategy has “hidden spending that they don’t want to fight about because they know they could lose that fight.”

“The cuts that we have been tracking fall in areas where the Trump administration has already proposed significant cuts for next year, but they’re making them happen now rather than seeking to get Congress to agree to them for the future,” she added.

“I think it’s one of the scariest things that a president can do,” Ariela Rosenberg, a national security expert with Protect Democracy, told me in June when Trump sent troops into Los Angeles against local officials’ wishes.

“Authoritarianism works, in part, by attacking everywhere,” said Ben Raderstorf, a strategist with Protect Democracy and author of the newsletter “If You Can Keep It.” “It tries to overwhelm a democracy with a wave of stories that will shock, numb, and demoralize its citizens into acquiescence. But that’s never the whole story — and the wins for democracy are often just as prevalent as the losses, albeit usually less shocking.”

Cerin Lindgrensavage, counsel for Protect Democracy, also said in a statement Monday that access to the apportionment process “means we can finally see where OMB may have abused this tool to unlawfully delay spending.”

Cerin Lindgrensavage, counsel for Protect Democracy Project, one of the organizations that filed the lawsuit, released a statement cheering the Circuit Court’s decision.

“Restoration of this website could not have come at a more important time — over the last two weeks journalists have broken story after story of OMB holding back funds using apportionment footnotes — and once this website goes back online we should all have a chance to learn where else OMB has been holding up money that — under law — should be spent,” Lindgrensavage wrote.