119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Mar 5, 2025
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
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Latest action (Jun 15, 2026): Held at the desk.
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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.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
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Held at the desk.
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Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2721-2723; text: CR S2722-2723)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
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PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT · lobbying firm or registrant: PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT
2025 Q4 report (Oct 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025) · posted Jan 21, 2026 · issue area: Government Issues
$10,000
Spent on own lobbying
Supported oversight reforms Supported expanding USAspending.gov reporting (S. 872)
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION · lobbying firm or registrant: NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
2025 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025) · posted Oct 21, 2025 · issue area: Government Issues
$30,000
Spent on own lobbying
…ractors FEMA tax dollars for PREPA S. 269Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act S. 81Guidance Clarity Act S. 861Disaster Assistance Simplification Act S. 872Stop Secret Spending Act HR 1771Improper Payments Transparency Act
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION · lobbying firm or registrant: NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
2025 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025) · posted Jul 21, 2025 · issue area: Budget/Appropriations
$30,000
Spent on own lobbying
…68Continuing Resolution H. Con. Res 14Budget Reconciliation Framework S. 269Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act S. 766Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act S. 872Stop Secret Spending Act H.R. 1156Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act HR 1388Fair-Value Accounting and Budget Act Earmark Ban H.R. 580Unfounded Mandates…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION · lobbying firm or registrant: NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Apr 21, 2025 · issue area: Budget/Appropriations
$30,000
Spent on own lobbying
…68Continuing Resolution H. Con. Res 14Budget Reconciliation Framework S. 269Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act S. 766Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act S. 872Stop Secret Spending Act H.R. 1156Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act HR 1388Fair-Value Accounting and Budget Act
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing