S 872 United States Senate · 119th Congress

Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025

Summary
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.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2026
Senate Passage
Jun 2026
House Passage
President
Introduced Mar 5, 2025 Last action Jun 15, 2026
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Introduced in Senate Engrossed in Senate · 5 edits · Jun 10, 2026
MODERATE
The engrossed version makes several clarifying amendments to S 872 (Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025). The most substantive change replaces 'and' with 'or' in references to agency categories under section 901(b) of title 31, broadening which agencies must submit Inspector General reports on transparency compliance. Remaining changes are grammatical corrections and formatting fixes.
Scope change
The bill's applicability to federal agencies is broadened: Inspector General transparency reports are now required from agencies falling under either category (1) or (2) of section 901(b), rather than only those falling under both.
SCOPE

In the Inspector General reporting requirement (section 6(a)), changed 'paragraphs (1) and (2)' to 'paragraph (1) or (2)' of section 901(b), broadening the set of agencies required to submit reports from those falling under both categories to those falling under either category.

In the other transaction agreements provision (section 2(a)(4)(A)(ii)), changed 'and' to 'or', broadening the condition under which certain agreements are covered.

TECHNICAL

Corrected subject-verb agreement: 'includes other transaction agreements' changed to 'include other transaction agreements.'

Fixed punctuation in section 4(e) by replacing a comma with a semicolon and adding 'and' to properly connect the two subparagraphs.

Corrected the Federal Acquisition Regulation clause number format from '52.204.10' to '52.204-10' in the GAO report provision.

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This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
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Actions timeline

Total actions
11
Key actions
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Committee
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Jun 10, 2026
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2721-2723; text: CR S2722-2723)
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Jun 10, 2026
Upper · Passed
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.
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Mar 18, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
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Nov 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report.
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Jul 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
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Mar 5, 2025
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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Mar 5, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors

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