Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
Introduced Mar 5, 2025 by Sen. Joni Ernst
The Senate passed it. The House has to pass it before it can reach the President.
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 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 by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Jun 15, 2026Held at the desk.
- Jun 15, 2026Received in the House.
- Jun 12, 2026Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Jun 10, 2026Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2721-2723; text: CR S2722-2723)
- Jun 10, 2026Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.
- Mar 18, 2026Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
- Nov 7, 2025Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265.
- Nov 7, 2025Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report.
- Jul 30, 2025Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Mar 5, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- Mar 5, 2025Introduced in Senate