S. 872 Senate Government Operations and Politics
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
STAGE 4 OF 8 — HOUSE FLOOR
Currently in the Senate. Last action: held at the desk on Jun 15, 2026.
- Senate Introduced in Senate Mar 5, 2025
- Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Mar 5, 2025
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. Jul 30, 2025
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report. Nov 7, 2025
- Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265. Nov 7, 2025
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Mar 18, 2026
- Senate Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. Jun 10, 2026
- Senate Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2721-2723; text: CR S2722-2723) Jun 10, 2026
- Senate Message on Senate action sent to the House. Jun 12, 2026
- House Received in the House. Jun 15, 2026
- House Held at the desk. Jun 15, 2026
Cosponsors
5
Subjects
Budget deficits and national debtCongressional oversightGovernment information and archivesInternet, web applications, social media
Committees
- Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
- Hearings By (full committee) , Mar 18, 2026
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
- Reported By , Nov 7, 2025
- Markup By , Jul 30, 2025
- Referred To , Mar 5, 2025
Summary
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025This 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.
Summary as of: Introduced in Senate
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