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// About This Project

Follow the Money. Track the Votes.

We believe government accountability requires more than rhetoric. It requires data. Gov Transparency Project publishes independent, non-partisan analysis of federal spending, congressional activity, and economic policy — sourced exclusively from public government records.

No spin. No agenda.
Just the numbers your
elected officials hope
you won't read.
01
Data First

Every claim we publish is sourced from primary government data — FRED, US Treasury, Congress.gov, CBO, OMB, BLS, and BEA. We link to the source. Always.

02
Non-Partisan

We don't have a political home. We apply the same scrutiny to every administration, every Congress, every agency. The numbers don't lie — and neither do we.

03
Public Record

All data we use is in the public domain, published by federal agencies. We organize it, analyze it, and make it readable. That's it.

Coverage Areas

What We Cover

Federal Spending
Federal Spending

Where every federal dollar goes. We track outlays, discretionary spending, mandatory programs, and the agencies spending your money.

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Congressional Votes
Congressional Votes

Every vote, every bill, every roll call. We track the 119th Congress using official Congress.gov data so you know how your representatives actually vote.

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Economic Data
Economic Data

GDP, inflation, unemployment, and Federal Reserve policy tracked in real time using FRED economic indicators from the St. Louis Fed.

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Regulatory Watch
Regulatory Watch

Federal rulemaking, executive orders, and agency actions that reshape the economy — tracked from the Federal Register.

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Budget & Deficit
Budget & Deficit

The deficit, the debt trajectory, and CBO projections. We track the long-term fiscal picture the annual budget debates often obscure.

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Our Sources

Where the Data
Comes From

We use only primary government sources. No aggregators, no think tanks, no partisan organizations. If we can't source it to a federal agency or official government API, we don't publish it.

FRED — St. Louis Fed
fred.stlouisfed.org

200,000+ US and international economic time series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

US Treasury Fiscal Data
fiscaldata.treasury.gov

Daily debt figures, monthly statements, and federal financing data from the US Treasury.

Congress.gov
congress.gov

Official legislative data from the Library of Congress — bills, votes, member information, and committee activity.

Congressional Budget Office
cbo.gov

Non-partisan federal agency producing independent economic and budget analysis for Congress.

Office of Management & Budget
whitehouse.gov/omb

Presidential budget proposals, historical spending tables, and federal agency budget justifications.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
bls.gov

Employment, inflation, and productivity data including the Consumer Price Index and unemployment statistics.

Bureau of Economic Analysis
bea.gov

GDP, personal income, and national accounts data from the Commerce Department.

Federal Register
federalregister.gov

The official journal of federal rulemaking — every proposed and final rule, executive order, and agency notice.

Government Accountability Office
gao.gov

Independent federal watchdog reports on government program performance, waste, and accountability.

Our Methodology

[01]
Primary Sources Only

Every data point in our analysis links directly to the originating federal agency or API. We do not use secondary sources, press releases, or aggregated datasets that obscure the underlying government data.

[02]
Calculations Are Shown

When we compute derived metrics — year-over-year inflation, deficit as a percentage of GDP, debt trajectory — we show the formula and the source series. Readers can verify every calculation independently.

[03]
No Political Framing

We describe what the data shows. We do not assign blame, credit administrations with outcomes they didn't cause, or editorialize about policy choices. Context is provided; conclusions are left to the reader.

[04]
Live Data Has Limits

Economic data is revised. FRED series are updated on federal release schedules. Congressional data reflects the latest API response. We display the most recent available data but note when figures are preliminary or subject to revision.

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The Watchdog
Weekly

Every Sunday — key spending data, vote breakdowns, and the stories politicians hope you miss.