Top Democrat appropriators in the House and Senate are criticizing the Trump administration for a lack of transparency in government spending, including at the HHS, after some federal agencies submitted incomplete budgetary plans for the 2025 fiscal year.

Federal agencies are required to submit spending plans to the House and Senate so legislators can oversee how the executive branch is managing congressionally appropriated funds.

However, many regulators have yet to submit detailed plans, while some agencies have failed to turn in any reports whatsoever, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, alleged in a letter to the director of the Office of Manage

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