The Trump administration’s conduct and statements with regard to spending freezes and impoundment, including the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) activities, have created uncertainty as to whether or not funding is flowing through Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service to particular programs, agencies, and departments in accordance with the law.
This data tool allows users to track the flow of federal funds in real time. It shows actual daily, weekly, monthly, and annual processed outlays to key programs and departments, as well as to states, Congress, and the Judiciary. This tool only reports outlays of federal funds, meaning the actual transmission of funds from the federal government to another entity.
This tool makes few to no adjustments to the data, meaning that cyclical, seasonal, idiosyncratic, and expected variation in patterns of outlays over time remain. Because this tool only reports outlays, one cannot discern directly whether there is a gap between obligated funds and their outlay. Furthermore, if federal agencies have changed the rate at which they are newly obligating funds (e.g., by declining to sign new contracts), those changes would only gradually be reflected in outlays.
Lambert here: handy chart:
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