USA Spending.gov
By Barry Ritholtz - July 1st, 2009, 2:30PM
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Another fascinating take from the new CIO of the USA. Track all of the United States spending, access the raw data and analysis at usaspending.gov.
USAspending.gov is a re-launch of a prior attempt to put all this info online, www.fedspending.org
I was surprised to see that the top 5 vendors are all defense contractors. I suspect that putting the nitty gritty details of the government’s spending won’t be too great for certain recipients.
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Some other USA Spending.gov data series . . .
1.Top 100 Recipients of Federal Contract Awards for FY 2009
2. Total Spending
3. Spending Overview by State and Year
July 1st, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Too bad they didn’t break the “Spending by State” graphic into absolute and per capita numbers. Spending $1 billion in California isn’t the same as spending $1 billion in Montana.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:47 pm
@Franklin411
Agreed!
But then again, why didn’t they just break it up into “dollars per electoral vote”…
That would tell you where the TRUTH is…
July 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pm
State and local governments across the nation, who are unwittingly pulling the rug out from under the federal government and thwarting any chance for a sustainable recovery by 2010.
But it isn’t their fault. Tax revenues have fallen off a cliff, leaving states with a cumulative budget gap of more than $100 billion for fiscal ‘09.
To deal with these shortfalls, states have laid off or furloughed thousands of employees, raised taxes and fees, and slashed spending on education and other social programs – some, many times over. It was supposed to balance their ‘09 budgets. But it wasn’t nearly enough.
Read more here: http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-stimulus-isnt-working.html
July 1st, 2009 at 3:27 pm
This site is awesome! Thanks for pointing it out BR. I imagine it will eventually expand beyond just IT spending, which will really help people understand how well (or poorly) the government spends our money.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Makes me wonder whether this includes the “Black budget” which is probably equal to two or more of the largest defense contractors.
And then that raises the more interesting question: given the top contractors are defense contractors, how much of their federal contracting is actually for the Department of Homeland Security and/or the black budget?
July 1st, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Look at South Carolina! 4.8 million people in that little state and it is the same color as Texas, Florida and California! But Sanford was going to refuse federal stimulus money, casting himself as a hero for fiscal conservatives.
I would say the same thing about Bobby Jindal’s state, but with what happened in Katrina there is probably a good reason for federal spending.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
If I were a resident of MT, WY, ND, SD, NE, ME, VT or NH I would be one pissed off puppy. The USG is spending more on Puerto Rico which is a territory than it is individually on those 8 states.
July 1st, 2009 at 7:46 pm
“2) The Boeing Company $14,730,265,990″
Sure is nice having a $14 billion cushion to fall back on when you can’t get your commercial planes to fly.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:11 pm
@Pat G
Maybe we could do a “good bank/bad bank”…
…we could carve out all the non-performing assets and put them on to Puerto Rico…
July 1st, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Thanks for sharing this!
Will be interested to see how much of the raw data they release so that people can come to their own conclusions, rather than just seeing the graphs they create for the site.
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:48 am
This is the last one of those fancy-butt “openness” web sites you’ll see in a while you… you… you world-government types. Democrat’s techno-science majority is threatened as Obama, the G20, and UN’s Ban Ki-Moon better hurry up and re-focus:
Ant mega-colony takes over world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Anyone… What is VD talking about.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:33 am
Nice to see KBR (aka Haliburton) jump from nowhere into the top ten recipient list for most of the decade