# 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## 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 unified search interface over 100+ economic time series. 2. Ten pre-built dashboards spanning debt, spending, revenue, inflation, labor, interest rates, state & local government, and congressional activity. 3. One-click CSV / JSON export for every series. 4. 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## 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. ### /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. ### /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. ### /downloads Bulk CSV / JSON exports grouped by dashboard. Includes direct links to the upstream federal agency source for every dataset. ### /methodology Data sources, update cadence, editorial principles, citation policy, and known limitations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Data Sources ### U.S. Department of the Treasury - Debt to the Penny (daily) - 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 - 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Contact Corrections, source suggestions, and methodology questions can be submitted via the repository at https://github.com/AXIA-Enterprises/govspending.