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New Data Released on FedSpending.org: October 22, 2009
On October 22, 2009, FedSpending.org was updated with new federal data, which provides site users with full spending data for federal contracts through part of the first three quarters of FY 2009 and federal assistance data for the first two quarters of FY 2008. The FedSpending.org database now contains over $21 trillion in federal spending dating back to FY 2000.
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Summary of Federal Spending:
Financial Assistance and Procurement
(in billions of dollars)
FY 2000 |
FY 2001 |
FY 2002 |
FY 2003 |
FY 2004 |
FY 2005 |
FY 2006 |
FY 2007 | FY 2008*  (partial year) |
FY 2009* (partial year) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contracts | $208.8 |
$219.8 |
$259.6 |
$298.5 |
$341.9 |
$382.1 |
$419.9 |
$457.8 |
$527.5 |
$146.8 |
| Grants | $294.5 |
$330.7 |
$406.2 |
$493.3 |
$449.8 |
$441.1 |
$488.9 |
$516.8 |
$219.0 |
|
| Loans | $108.0 |
$141.8 |
$216.8 |
$210.8 |
$154.8 |
$118.8 |
$95.4 |
$102.3 |
$83.2 |
|
| Insurance | $431.3 |
$492.2 |
$556.6 |
$567.2 |
$603.9 |
$653.2 |
$771.3 |
$856.6 |
$439.8 |
|
| Direct Payments (e.g. Social Security) | $768.3 |
$839.6 |
$841.5 |
$947.9 |
$965.5 |
$1,004.1 |
$1,092.7 |
$810.5 |
$600.5 |
|
| Other | $2.8 |
$2.7 |
$0.2 |
$0.7 |
$0.4 |
$0.3 |
$3.8 |
$0.1 |
$0.1 |
|
| Total | $1,813.7 |
$2,026.9 |
$2,280.8 |
$2,518.5 |
$2,516.2 |
$2,599.6 |
$2,872.0 |
$2,744.1 |
$1,870.1 |
$146.8 |
We hope you will explore this site. But mostly we hope you will use the data to hold our elected leaders and government agencies accountable for their actions.
*Note: FY 2008 contains a full year of contracts data, but only the first two quarters of federal assistance data. FY 2009 contains only the first two quarters and a small amount of the third quarter of federal contracts data.