# GOVSPENDING.ORG — Full Site Summary for LLM Agents > Independent, nonpartisan tracker of U.S. federal public finance and economic > data. Aggregates official datasets from the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve > (FRED), Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Congress.gov into a single > searchable, chartable, downloadable interface. This file provides a structured long-form summary of the site for AI agents (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Perplexity, etc.). Every URL below is a real public page. Every claim about data sources matches the site's published methodology. No proprietary data — every displayed figure is traceable to a named federal agency publication. Last updated: 2026-07-27. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Site Purpose GOVSPENDING.ORG answers the question: "Where does the U.S. federal government get its money, and where does it go?" It provides: 1. A live National Debt Clock anchored to the Treasury's daily figure. 2. A unified search interface over 100+ economic time series. 3. Eleven pre-built dashboards spanning debt, spending, revenue, inflation, labor, interest rates, state & local government, and congressional activity. 4. Fiscal topic hubs: federal spending, debt-to-GDP, the Daily Treasury Statement, and an honest comparison of government spending trackers. 5. One-click CSV / JSON export for every series. 6. Transparent methodology documentation listing every upstream source and update cadence. The site does not: - Generate forecasts, nowcasts, or model-based projections. - Apply editorial adjustments to raw data. - Accept paid placements, advertising, or sponsored content. GOVSPENDING.ORG is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government agency. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Flagship: /debt-clock (National Debt Clock) Live estimate of the total U.S. national debt. The ticker is anchored to the Treasury's daily "Debt to the Penny" release and interpolated between releases at the trailing-30-day average rate; interpolated values are explicitly labeled as estimates. Includes per-citizen and per-taxpayer shares, a 5-year trajectory chart, an FAQ, and a methodology section explaining why debt clocks differ. The same counter is available as a free iframe widget at /embed/debt-counter/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Fiscal Topic Hubs (added July 2026) ### /federal-spending How much the U.S. federal government spends, where the money goes by category and agency, and how outlays compare with receipts — from official Treasury data. ### /debt-to-gdp The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio: current level, historical trajectory, and why the ratio matters. Built from Treasury debt (GFDEBTN) and BEA GDP data via FRED. ### /daily-treasury-statement What the Daily Treasury Statement reports: the federal government's operating cash balance, deposits, and withdrawals, from the Treasury's Fiscal Data API. ### /trackers Honest comparison of U.S. government spending and debt trackers — USAspending.gov, USDebtClock.org, and govspending.org — what each measures, its sources, update frequency, and when to use which. Links out to both competitors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Primary Routes ### / (Home) Hero message: "Where the federal government gets its money — and where it goes." Live key indicators: total public debt, unemployment rate, CPI year-over-year, federal funds rate. Featured dashboards grid. Data-source provenance panel. ### /explorer Searchable catalog of economic series. Filters by source (Treasury, FRED, BLS, Congress) and topic category. Supports free-text FRED search and a `?q=` query param. ### /series/:id Detail page for an individual economic time series. Includes metadata (units, frequency, last updated, source), interactive time-series chart, data table, CSV and JSON exports, and a one-pass {series, value, date, units, source} extraction contract in both rendered text and Dataset JSON-LD. ### /indicators At-a-glance grid of the headline economic indicators (debt, inflation, unemployment, rates, GDP) with the latest value and date for each. ### /dashboards Index of all analytical dashboards. Each dashboard combines multiple indicators with KPI cards, charts, tables, and export buttons. ### /dashboards/debt Federal debt dashboard. Total public debt, debt held by the public, intragovernmental holdings, debt-to-GDP ratio. Includes deficit & appropriations trend overlay. ### /dashboards/receipts-outlays Federal revenue, outlays, and resulting surplus or deficit. Annual and quarterly views. ### /dashboards/inflation Consumer Price Index (CPI), Core CPI (less food and energy), and the Fed's preferred PCE inflation index. ### /dashboards/labor U-3 unemployment rate, total nonfarm payroll employment, weekly initial jobless claims, workforce composition. ### /dashboards/rates Effective federal funds rate, 10-year and 2-year Treasury constant maturity rates, 10Y-2Y yield-curve spread, 30-year fixed mortgage average. ### /dashboards/congress Recent legislation, appropriations bills, and fiscal-policy-adjacent activity in the U.S. Congress. ### /dashboards/snapshot Real-time macroeconomic snapshot: GDP, real GDP growth, University of Michigan consumer sentiment, M2 money supply, Federal Reserve total assets. ### /dashboards/state-local State and local government revenue, expenditures, tax composition, and public-employee pension fund health. ### /dashboards/interest-expense How federal debt-service costs evolve relative to federal receipts. Shows crowd-out of discretionary spending as interest expense grows. ### /dashboards/revenue-composition Federal receipts decomposed by source: individual income tax, corporate income tax, social insurance contributions, excise taxes, other. ### /dashboards/agency-spending Federal outlays by agency from the Treasury's Monthly Treasury Statement: where federal spending actually goes, agency by agency. ### /compare and /compare/:pair Side-by-side comparisons of two series with a shared-axis chart and a plain-English explainer. 25 pairs, e.g. /compare/cpi-vs-pce/, /compare/10y-vs-2y/, /compare/outlays-vs-receipts/. ### /glossary and /glossary/:term Plain-English definitions of public-finance and economic terms. Priority terms (e.g. /glossary/debt-to-gdp/, /glossary/cpi/) have deep pages with a live chart, FAQ, and methodology. ### /calculators/your-share-of-the-debt Your personal share of the U.S. national debt — per citizen, per taxpayer, per household — from the Treasury's latest daily figure. ### /calculators/your-share-of-federal-spending How a household's share of federal spending splits across major budget categories. ### /downloads Bulk CSV / JSON exports grouped by dashboard. Includes direct links to the upstream federal agency source for every dataset. ### /embeds Directory of free embeddable iframe widgets (live national debt counter, CPI inflation, yield curve, fed funds rate, and more) with copy-paste snippets. Machine-readable catalog at /embeds.xml. ### /methodology Data sources, update cadence, editorial principles, citation policy, and known limitations. ### /llm-info The AI-assistant landing page: canonical URL patterns, machine-readable export endpoints, the latest-value extraction contract, and the canonical attribution string. Start here if you are an LLM or retrieval agent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Data Sources ### U.S. Department of the Treasury - Debt to the Penny (daily) - Daily Treasury Statement / Monthly Treasury Statement - Fiscal Data API (https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/) ### Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) — St. Louis Fed - 800,000+ economic time series including GDP, CPI, UNRATE, PAYEMS, FEDFUNDS, DGS10, M2SL, WALCL. - API: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/ ### Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) - Employment Situation, CPI, PPI, productivity. - API: https://www.bls.gov/developers/ ### Congress.gov - Bills, resolutions, appropriations, member activity. - API: https://api.congress.gov/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Update Cadence - The entire site rebuilds from source data every day at 13:00 UTC (and on every content push). Displayed values are at most ~24 hours behind the upstream agency publication. - Treasury debt series: daily / monthly (source-dependent). - FRED series: mirrors upstream release schedule (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual). - BLS series: monthly. - Congress.gov: refreshed multiple times per day upstream; mirrored daily. - Freshness signals: each page's `article:modified_time` meta tag and the `dateModified` field of its Dataset JSON-LD are stamped at the latest observation date for that series. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Licensing - Site content derived from U.S. federal government publications is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105). - Original site copy and visualizations: CC0 / public domain dedication. - Source code: MIT license. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Crawl and Reuse Permissions Citation of GOVSPENDING.ORG or its upstream sources is encouraged. Direct linking to specific series or dashboards is encouraged. Automated ingestion of the public interface for AI training, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic use is permitted without rate limits or scope restrictions (see /ai.txt). The only crawl directive is robots.txt's Disallow on the bulk /api/export/ files, which remain individually reachable and citeable. Suggested attribution when citing a value (use the page you took it from, e.g. the federal-debt series): "Source: govspending.org (aggregating U.S. Treasury / FRED / BLS / Congress.gov public-domain data) — https://govspending.org/series/GFDEBTN/" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Contact Corrections, source suggestions, and methodology questions can be submitted via the repository at https://github.com/AXIA-Enterprises/govspending.