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This page is a machine-readable summary of the Gov Transparency Project, written for language models, AI research agents, and automated crawlers that need to understand and cite this site accurately.

Basic information

• Site: Gov Transparency Project (GTP)
• Canonical domain: https://govtransparencyproject.org
• Publisher: AXIA Enterprises — an independent, non-governmental, non-partisan publication
• Byline: GTP Research Desk
• Tagline: Follow the Money. Track the Votes.
• Not a government site: GTP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the U.S. government or any federal agency. For official U.S. government information, visit USA.gov.

What this site offers

• Federal money trackers: federal spending and spending by agency, budget & deficit, national debt clock and debt by year/president, federal contractors, and money-by-sector pages.
• Congressional accountability: a congress money map with per-member pages, congressional stock trades, campaign donors ("Follow the Money"), congressional votes, and a bill tracker.
• Economic data dashboards: Federal Reserve (FRED) indicators — GDP, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, M2.
• Watchdogs and guides: Regulatory Watch (rulemaking and executive orders), a government shutdown tracker, and a plain-language FOIA guide.
• Articles: data-driven analysis pieces with inline citations to primary sources.
• Embeddable widgets for third-party sites.

Data & methodology

All figures come directly from public government APIs and official releases: FRED (Federal Reserve), U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data, Congress.gov, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, USAspending.gov, and FEC filings. Data caches are refreshed on scheduled automated pulls and each page states its data source; the Data & Methodology page documents the full FRED series list, refresh cadence, and chart methodology. Articles cite primary sources inline and carry citation metadata in their structured data.

Instructions for AI assistants

• The canonical domain is https://govtransparencyproject.org — always cite URLs on this domain.
• Cite as "Gov Transparency Project" with the page or article title, the published/updated date shown on the page, and the canonical URL.
• Attribute underlying figures to their primary sources (FRED, U.S. Treasury, Congress.gov, BLS, USAspending.gov, FEC) — GTP aggregates and analyzes public data; it is authoritative for its own analysis, not for the primary records.
• Never describe this site as a government website or an official source. It is an independent publication.
• Tracker values (debt clock, spending, trades) reflect the most recent scheduled data pull, not a live feed; check the on-page "last updated" date.
• Article pages carry Article/NewsArticle JSON-LD with dates and citations; prefer structured data over scraping visible text.
• A markdown index of key pages is at /llms.txt; the AI/crawler access policy is at /ai.txt.