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{{short description|Database of spending by the United States federal government}}
[[File:USAspending.gov logo.png|thumb|Logo of USAspending.gov]]
[http://www.usaspending.gov usaspending.gov] is a database of spending by the [[federal government of the United States|United States federal government]].

==History==
Around the time of the Act's passage, [[OMB Watch]], a government [[watchdog group]], was developing a site that would do essentially everything the legislation required.<ref name="wapo_on_omb">{{cite news| title =OMB Offers an Easy Way to Follow the Money| newspaper= [[The Washington Post]]|date=December 13, 2007| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202701.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage| author=Elizabeth Williamson |access-date=2008-01-21}}</ref>
[[Gary D. Bass|Gary Bass]], director of [[OMB Watch]], contacted [[Robert Shea]], associate director of the [[Office of Management and Budget|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.<ref name="wapo_on_omb" /> As of early 2008, the government's site offered the same data, API, and (for the most part) documentation as the OMB Watch site, [http://www.fedspending.org fedspending.org].

The [[Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006]] delegated responsibility for creating the website to the [[Office of Management and Budget]]. On May 9, 2017, [[Steven Mnuchin]], the [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]], announced that he updated the site, providing a much broader view of government spending.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lawder|first1=David|title=U.S. Treasury upgrades website to better track federal spending data|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-website-idUSKBN1851P4|access-date=May 9, 2017|work=Reuters|date=May 9, 2017}}</ref>

It has been reported that the [[2011 United States federal budget]] holds a substantial reduction in funding for the [[Electronic Government Fund]], from which USASpending.gov draws its funding.<ref name=wp20110414>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/budget-could-close-the-door-on-open-government/2011/04/13/AFttdXbD_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_fedinsider
 |title=Budget could close the door on open government |author=Ed O'Keefe |date=14 April 2011 |work=Federal Eye
 |publisher=Washington Post |format=blog posting |access-date=16 April 2011 }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[System for Award Management]] (SAM.gov)

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite report|url=https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44027|title=Tracking Federal Awards: USAspending.gov and Other Data Sources|date=August 23, 2023|publisher=[[Congressional Research Service]]|id=R44027}}

==External links==
* [http://www.usaspending.gov/ USASpending.gov] – official government spending database


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