HR-2069 — Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025

This bill became law on 2026-09-11 as Public Law No. 119-106.

The summary below describes the bill at the version we last reviewed; the enacted text may differ.

YourVoice.Now Summary

Transparency & Accountability

Federal deals made outside normal contract rules must go public — on USAspending.gov, within three years.

Transparency & Accountability

Public reporting of “other transaction” contracts — USAspending.gov, within three years

Other transaction agreements are deals agencies use to buy research and technology without following most normal contracting rules. The law counts them as federal awards, so they must appear on USAspending.gov the way grants and contracts do.

Yearly public report of spending left off the site — with reasons

Treasury must post a report each year showing how much federal award money never made it onto the site. The report must give the reasons, such as classified work, awards from Congress or the courts, or small subawards.

Full list of “other transaction” contracts if deadline missed

The automatic data feed is due in three years. If it is not running after one year, Treasury must instead publish a detailed list of every one of these deals from the year before.

Agency heads made responsible for accurate spending data — Treasury may check

Each agency head must make sure the spending data their agency posts is complete and correct. Treasury and the White House budget office can check that data themselves and set how it is displayed.

Public list of agencies required to report spending — refreshed every two years

Treasury, working with the White House budget office, decides which agencies and agency offices have to post spending data. That decision goes on the site and is redone at least every two years.

Watchdog reviews of spending data — public, at least every two years

Inspectors general are watchdogs inside each agency. They review how well their own agency reports spending data and follows the data rules, then send that review to Congress and post it for the public.

Spending-posting duty limited to agencies Treasury names

Today the posting rule is written to cover federal agencies generally. Under the new law it applies to the agencies on Treasury's published list, and the change starts when that first list comes out.

Watchdog reviews cover only agencies listed in federal law

The current rule names every federal agency. The law swaps that for a set of agencies listed in another federal law, so agencies outside that list do not owe these reviews.

Watchdog reporting requirement stops ten years after enactment

The law sets the watchdog review schedule to run for ten years from September 11, 2026. After that, this reporting requirement no longer applies.

More about this bill

Federal agencies sign deals called “other transaction agreements” — a way to buy research and technology outside normal contracting rules. Today those deals do not have to show up on USAspending.gov, the public site that tracks federal spending. The new law adds them to the site, so anyone can look them up. The Treasury has three years to make that data reach the site automatically. Most people will notice no change in daily life. What changes is what you can look up. Within one year, Treasury must post a yearly report on spending the site is missing. It has to say why — classified work, for example, or awards from Congress and the courts. Agency heads are responsible for making sure their own numbers are complete and correct. Agency inspectors general — the in-house watchdogs — must publish reviews at least every two years. That duty ends ten years after enactment. The President signed it into law on September 11, 2026.

Congressional Summary

Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 This bill expands a requirement for federal agencies to report expenditures on the USAspending.gov website to include other transaction agreement expenditures. (Other transaction agreements, or OTAs, are contractual instruments other than standard procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements; they are exempt from many federal procurement laws and regulations). Under current law, federal agencies must report expenditures on federal awards to USAspending.gov with the term federal award defined as federal grants, loans, cooperative agreements, contracts, and certain other types of expenditures. This bill expands the definition of federal award to include expenditures under OTAs, and therefore such expenditures must be included on the USAspending.gov website. The Department of the Treasury must ensure that data relating to OTAs are automatically transmitted to the website and a centralized view of this data is available on the website. Treasury must also annually post on the USAspending.gov website a report that includes (1) the total amount of federal spending on federal awards for which data has not been posted on the website, and (2) the reason why such spending data was not posted. For 10 years after enactment, the Office of Inspector General of specified federal agencies must periodically submit to Congress and make publicly available a report assessing the agency's spending data and use of data standards.

Legislative Subjects

Budget deficits and national debtCongressional oversightGovernment information and archivesInternet, web applications, social media

Details

Congress: 119th
Chamber: House
Status: summarized
Action: Public Law
Action Date: 2026-09-11
Date Added: 2026-07-18
Source: Congress.gov →

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