H.R. 2069
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
Sponsor: Barry Moore
3 cosponsors
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
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 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.
Text of the bill
(a) Other transaction agreements. Section 2(a) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (4)(A)—
(A) in clause (ii), by adding and and the end; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
(iii) includes other transaction agreements;
; and
(2) in paragraph (7)—
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking (2)(A)(i) and inserting (4)(A)(i); and
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking (2)(A)(ii) and inserting (4)(A)(ii).
(b) Data standards. Section 4 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(e) Other transaction agreement data. Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025, the Secretary shall ensure that, with respect to the website established under section 2, or any successor website—
(1) data relating to other transaction agreements is automatically transmitted to the website, and
(2) a centralized view of the data described in paragraph (1) is available on the website.
(c) Annual report on unreported funding. Section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(h) Annual report. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025, and annually thereafter, the Secretary, in consultation with the Director, shall post to the website established under this section a report that includes—
(1) the total amount of Federal spending on Federal awards for which data has not been posted to the website; and
(2) the reason data on the Federal spending described in paragraph (1) has not been posted to the website, including whether the Federal spending was—
(A) national security-related or classified;
(B) a grant or contract awarded or entered into by a legislative or judicial branch agency; or
(C) a subaward below a primary subaward.
(d) Implementation plan
(1) Definitions. In this subsection:
(A) Director. The term Director means the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
(B) Relevant agency. The term relevant agency means a Federal agency (as defined in section 2(a) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note)) that has the authority to enter into an other transaction agreement, as determined by the Director.
(C) Secretary. The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Treasury.
(D) USAspending.gov. The term USAspending.gov means the website established under section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note).
(2) Initial compilation. If the Secretary has not yet complied with subsection (e) of section 4 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note), as added by this section, by the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination with the Director and the heads of relevant agencies, shall publish on USAspending.gov a report that lists and includes a detailed description of all other transaction agreements entered into by the relevant agencies for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which the report is published.
(3) Plan. If the Secretary has not yet complied with subsection (e) of section 4 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note), as added by this section, by the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Director and the heads of relevant agencies, shall submit to Congress a plan that includes—
(A) the status of including data relating to other transaction agreements on USAspending.gov; and
(B) actions underway and planned to ensure that the data described in subparagraph (A) is fully incorporated into USAspending.gov by the date that is 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act.