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.[1]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.[1] As of early 2008, the government's site offered the same data, API, and (for the most part) documentation as the OMB Watch site, fedspending.org.
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.[3]
usaspending, usaspending, database, spending, united, states, federal, government, logo, contents, history, also, references, further, reading, external, linkshistory, editaround, time, passage, watch, government, watchdog, group, developing, site, that, would. usaspending gov is a database of spending by the United States federal government Logo of USAspending gov Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksHistory editAround 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 1 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 1 As of early 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 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 2 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 3 See also editSystem for Award Management SAM gov References edit a b Elizabeth Williamson December 13 2007 OMB Offers an Easy Way to Follow the Money The Washington Post Retrieved 2008 01 21 Lawder David May 9 2017 U S Treasury upgrades website to better track federal spending data Reuters Retrieved May 9 2017 Ed O Keefe 14 April 2011 Budget could close the door on open government blog posting Federal Eye Washington Post Retrieved 16 April 2011 Further reading editTracking Federal Awards USAspending gov and Other Data Sources Report Congressional Research Service August 23 2023 R44027 External links editUSASpending gov official government spending database nbsp This United States government related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title USAspending gov amp oldid 1217043304, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
