Read the post A Snapshot of Government-Wide Contracting for FY 2022 August 15, 2023 While the federal workforce performs a wide range of duties, federal agencies also enter into ...
Read the post A Snapshot of Government-wide Contracting for FY 2021 (Interactive Dashboard) August 25, 2022 Note: This blog post was updated to clarify that the decrease in spending of $54 billion was ...
Read the post Federal Spending Data Quality—Is This As Good As It Gets? Auditors Say It Can Be Better July 26, 2022 Federal agencies spent $10.1 trillion in fiscal year 2021. But $131.8 billion of that was not ...
Read the post USAspending.gov Offers Insight on Government Spending, But Data Quality and User Awareness Impact Its Usefulness February 03, 2022 The federal government spent more than $9 trillion last fiscal year, of which a large portion was ...
Read the post Getting in Fiscal Shape — How Changing Future Spending and Revenue Could Improve Government Finances (interactive graphic) December 17, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic turmoil and resulted in unprecedented federal spending to ...
Read the post USAspending.gov Contains a Treasure Trove of Information, But How Reliable Is It? August 13, 2020 August 14 is the deadline for agencies, including those that led the federal response to the COVID ...
Read the post Improper Payments on the Rise March 04, 2020 Increasingly, the federal government is making payments it shouldn’t. Improper payments are when the ...
Read the post The DATA Act: Checking in on Spending Transparency November 13, 2019 Federal agencies spend over $4 trillion a year. But how that money is spent isn’t always easy to ...
Read the post Federal Government Contracting for Fiscal Year 2018 (infographic) May 28, 2019 With tax season over, now is a good time to look at how the government uses your tax dollars. About ...
Read the post GAO’s Guide to Saving the Government Billions of Dollars: Reducing Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication in Federal Programs May 21, 2019 Today we released our 9th annual report on fragmentation, overlap, and duplication in the federal ...
Read the post Did You Know the Government Gets Audited, Too? March 28, 2019 Tax season has many people diligently filing their returns to avoid being audited. While the federal ...
Read the post The Nation’s Precarious Fiscal Future June 21, 2018 The United States faces a highly challenging fiscal future. Absent change in policy, the federal ...
