Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025

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

Treasury would 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.

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.

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

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

Inspectors general are watchdogs inside each agency. They would 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.

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

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

The bill sets the watchdog review schedule to run for ten years after it becomes law. After that, this reporting requirement would no longer apply.