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| Owner | United States of America |
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| URL | usaspending |
| Launched | December 13, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-12-13) |
USAspending.gov is a database of spending by theUnited States federal government.
Around the time of theFederal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006's passage,OMB Watch, a governmentwatchdog group, was developing a site that would do essentially everything the legislation required.[1]Gary Bass, director ofOMB Watch, contactedRobert Shea, associate director of theOMB, offering to help with development of the new site. Shea was initially reluctant to collaborate with Bass, in part becauseOMB 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.[1] 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 theOffice of Management and Budget.
The2011 United States federal budget reduced funding for the Electronic Government Fund, from which USASpending.gov drew its funding.[2] The budget had a small increase for the fund in 2012.[3]
TheDigital 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.[4]
On May 9, 2017,Steven Mnuchin, theUnited States Secretary of the Treasury, announced that Treasury updated the site, providing a much broader view of government spending.[5]18F contributed to development of the revised site.[6]
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