Tracking federal expenditures in real time
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https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1231335530
> Now, it is not an accident that this document exists, this beautiful, awkwardly hyperlinked Daily Treasury PDF. The United States government is, of course, a prodigious generator of paperwork. And decades ago, lawmakers realized they'd need to decide how to drag all of that paper into the modern digital era...
> Rachel says the Treasury publishes its bank statement because the US has kind of staked this ground of being super transparent. That goes back to some bipartisan laws starting in 2006. The internet was still young. One of the bills Congress would pass, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act-- that's right, DATA-- required that all federal spending data be displayed publicly online in one place.