Investigative Journalism & In-Depth Reporting
Weekly analysis of federal spending data from USAspending.gov and agency budgets
TIJ's weekly federal spending review: a $2.3B Virginia-class submarine modification, $833M for ESSM Block II missiles, $407M for Aegis Guam, and GAO's $186B improper-payments tally.
Federal agencies booked $186 billion in improper payments in FY 2025, GAO finds, even as the Pentagon, DOE, and FEMA close out multi-billion-dollar contract and grant cycles.
GAO reports federal agencies disbursed an estimated $186 billion in improper payments in FY 2025 even as the Pentagon committed billions more across submarine, missile, and software contracts.
The Investigative Journal’s weekly survey of federal obligations, grant flows, and oversight findings — drawn from primary sources on USAspending.gov, the Department of War’s daily contracts wire, agency press rooms,…
By Eduardo Bacci — The Investigative Journal Federal contracting activity during the first two weeks of April 2026 was dominated by an unusually concentrated pulse of defense obligations, a renewed…