A federal appeals court has rejected a Trump administration bid to keep secret a public database detailing federal spending, ruling the information must be restored online by Friday, Politico reported Saturday night. 

In a unanimous decision Saturday, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court order requiring the administration to put the data back online. Two judges — Karen Henderson, appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and Robert Wilkins, appointed by President Barack Obama — issued a sharp opinion blasting the administration’s move as an assault on Congress’ constitutional power of the purse.

“No court would allow a losing party to defy its judgment,” Henderson wrote. “No President would allow a usurper to command our armed forces. And no Congress should be made to wait while the Executive intrudes on its plenary power over appropriations.”

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