USAspending.gov is a database of spending by the
United States federal government.
History
Around the time of the
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006's passage,
OMB Watch, a government
watchdog group, was developing a site that would do essentially everything the legislation required.
, director of
OMB Watch, contacted
Robert Shea, associate director of the
OMB, offering to help with development of the new site. Shea was initially reluctant to collaborate with Bass, in part because
OMB Watch is typically critical of the OMB, but eventually it was determined that the government site would be based on what OMB Watch was developing, with the group being paid $600,000 for their technology.
In 2008, the government's site offered the same data, API, and (for the most part) documentation as the OMB Watch site, fedspending.org.
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 delegated responsibility for creating the website to the
Office of Management and Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). The office's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, while it also examines agency pro ...
.
The
2011 United States federal budget reduced funding for the Electronic Government Fund, from which USASpending.gov drew its funding.
The budget had a small increase for the fund in 2012.
The
Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) established common standards for financial data provided by all government agencies and expanded the amount of data that agencies must provide to USASpending.gov.
On May 9, 2017,
Steven Mnuchin, the
United States Secretary of the Treasury
The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...
, announced that Treasury updated the site, providing a much broader view of government spending.
18F contributed to development of the revised site.
See also
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System for Award Management (SAM.gov)
References
Further reading
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External links
USASpending.gov– official government spending database
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Fact-checking websites
Government procurement in the United States
Government services web portals in the United States