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Because there's a statute that says that the agencies have to protect your personally identifiable information. This issue arose in regards to the Treasury payments system, which is going to contain things like bank information and account numbers and things that go well beyond "Agency X is funding program Y." There's a law that says they're not allowed to share that kind of information, so you have an expectation that they won't. The IRS doesn't share your tax returns, the VA doesn't share your medical records, and Treasury doesn't (or shouldn't) let people from other agencies access a database that has your personally identifiable financial information.
And no one is suggesting that anything of that nature be shared. What's being shared is stuff like the Politico Pro subscription information and amounts of payment, which is all fair game.
