What a yes vote endorsed
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
What this does
The bill amends the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to require that other transaction agreements be reported on USAspending.gov. Section 2 adds other transaction agreements to the Federal awards that must be reported and directs that, within three years of enactment, the data be automatically transmitted to the website with a centralized view. It also requires the Secretary of the Treasury, within one year of enactment and annually after, to post a report of the total Federal award spending not yet on the website and the reason it is missing. Section 2 further sets an implementation plan: if the automated system is not live one year after enactment, the Secretary must publish a report listing and describing all other transaction agreements entered into by relevant agencies for the prior fiscal year, and if it is not live two years after enactment, the Secretary must submit a plan to Congress on incorporating the data by year three. Section 3 sets inspector general reporting deadlines, adds completeness and accuracy requirements and display standards for posted data, and directs the Secretary to determine which Federal agencies and components must post spending information, publish a list of them, and notify each one. Section 4 directs the Comptroller General to recommend any advisable updates to a Federal Acquisition Regulation clause; that section does not amend the 2006 Act.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 9 sourced claims
- The bill amends the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to require that other transaction agreements be reported on USAspending.gov.Source: Long title; Sec. 2(a), new par. (4)(A)(iii)
- Within three years of enactment, data on other transaction agreements must be automatically transmitted to USAspending.gov, with a centralized view of that data available on the website.Source: Sec. 2(b), new subsec. (e)
- Within one year of enactment and annually after, the Secretary of the Treasury must post a report of the total Federal award spending for which data has not been posted, and the reason it has not been posted.Source: Sec. 2(c), new subsec. (h)
- If the automated system is not live one year after enactment, the Secretary must publish on USAspending.gov a report listing and describing all other transaction agreements entered into by relevant agencies for the preceding fiscal year.Source: Sec. 2(d)(2)
- If the automated system is not live two years after enactment, the Secretary must submit to Congress a plan on the status of including that data and the actions to fully incorporate it by three years after enactment.Source: Sec. 2(d)(3)
- Section 3 sets deadlines for each covered agency's inspector general to submit to Congress and publicly release its report, within one year of enactment and at least once every two years after, until ten years after enactment.Source: Sec. 3(a), amending FFATA sec. 6(a)
- Section 3 adds requirements that posted data be complete and accurate, gives the Secretary and Director authority to verify it, and directs agency heads to comply with display standards set by the Secretary.Source: Sec. 3(b)(1)(B), new subsecs. (c) and (d)
- Within one year of enactment and at least once every two years after, the Secretary must determine which Federal agencies and components must post spending information, publish a list of them, and give written notice to the head and inspector general of each agency on the list.Source: Sec. 3(b)(1)(B), new subsec. (e)
- Within one year of enactment, the Comptroller General must recommend any advisable updates to Federal Acquisition Regulation clause 52.204.10; this section does not amend the 2006 Act, it only references incorporating the Act's requirements.Source: Sec. 4
Reported lobbying
No organization named this measure in a lobbying filing we could read with confidence.
That is not a finding that nobody lobbied it. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, and a reference that could not be pinned to exactly one measure is refused rather than guessed. This bill may have been lobbied without being named, or named in words we would not risk reading as this bill.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.