YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityForces billions in off-the-books federal "other transaction" spending onto USAspending.gov within three years.
Transparency & Accountability
- Spending disclosure — “Other transaction” agreements must be posted to USAspending.gov
- Unreported-spending accounting — Treasury must publish annual totals of awards missing from the site
- Data-quality duties — Agency heads made responsible for complete and accurate spending data
- Inspector-general audits — Compliance reports required at least every two years for a decade
The details
Billions of dollars in federal spending that never shows up on USAspending.gov would have to be posted there. The bill targets “other transaction agreements” — flexible contracts that agencies like the Pentagon and NASA use outside normal procurement rules, which today aren't reported to the public spending database. The Treasury would have three years to get that data flowing automatically, and would also have to publish an annual accounting of how much federal award spending is still missing from the site and why. Agency heads would become responsible for the accuracy of what they post, with inspectors general auditing compliance.
Congressional Summary
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025This 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
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 0.
- Action Date
- 2026-03-18
- Date Added
- 2026-07-18
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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