USAspending.gov

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.{{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}}

Gary Bass, 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 2011 United States federal budget reduced funding for the Electronic Government Fund, from which USASpending.gov drew its funding.{{cite web |author=Ed O'Keefe |date=14 April 2011 |title=Budget could close the door on open government |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 |access-date=16 April 2011 |work=Federal Eye |publisher=Washington Post |format=blog posting}} The budget had a small increase for the fund in 2012.{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Jason |date=2011-12-15 |title=E-gov fund gets boost in spending bill |url=https://federalnewsnetwork.com/all-news/2011/12/e-gov-fund-gets-boost-in-spending-bill/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Federal News Network |language=en-US}}

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.{{Cite web |last=Kamensky |first=John |date=2017-07-06 |title=10 Factors for Successfully Implementing Large Initiatives: Lessons from a recent success story |url=https://www.govexec.com/management/2017/07/10-factors-successfully-implementing-large-initiatives/139211/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Government Executive |language=en}}

On May 9, 2017, Steven Mnuchin, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, announced that Treasury updated the site, providing a much broader view of government spending.{{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}} 18F contributed to development of the revised site.{{Cite web |last=Ziadeh |first=Amanda |date=2016-06-02 |title=Building the next USASpending.Gov, out in the open |url=https://www.route-fifty.com/digital-government/2016/06/building-the-next-usaspendinggov-out-in-the-open/299135/?oref=rf-next-story |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Route Fifty |language=en}}

• System for Award Management (SAM.gov)

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• {{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}}

• [http://www.usaspending.gov/ USASpending.gov] – official government spending database

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