S 872 · 119th Congress · Government Operations and Politics
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
Bill Progress
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Introduced2
Committee3
Senate Vote4
House5
EnactedLatest: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.(2026-03-18)
Plain Language Summary
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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 websi…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeS. 872, Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
Nov 12, 2025As reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on November 7, 2025
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Cosponsors (5)
2 Democrats3 Republicans