The Budget Process: Data

• USASpending.gov
  Fully searchable website mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (FFATA), the 2008 Government Funding Transparency Act and the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act). It allows the public to get information on how their tax dollars are spent. The legislation required that federal contract, grant, loan, and other financial assistance awards of more than $25,000 be displayed on a searchable, publicly accessible website. As a matter of discretion, USAspending.gov also displays certain federal contract​s of more than $3,000. Federal agencies are required to report the name of the entity receiving the award, the amount of the award, the recipient’s location, the place of performance location, as well as other information, including some sub-recipients.

  The major data components are the Spending Map, the Agency Profiles, and the State/Territory Summaries. For more information on these components, see What You Can Do On T​he Site. See the Download Center for specifics.

• OMB Datasets
• OMB Historical Tables - accessible in either pdf format or in Excel spreadsheet form.
• Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial ed. (2006)
  This extraordinary database contains over 37,000 data sets, fully searchable and customizable. Retrieved tables can be downloaded as Excel or PDF files, printed and graphed. Date of coverage varies, but many tables include data 1790-2000, and a few extend to 2002. Also available as a print version, below.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present. 5 vols.
New York: Cambridge University Press, c2006.
Columbia Libraries Catalog Call No. HA 202 .H57 2006

• The Tax Foundation – a nonprofit research think tank on tax policy. 

• The National Priorities Project (see above in News and Commentary)

• Socrata released an app allowing researchers to analyze the most recent Presidential budget