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Available reporting does not provide a single, definitive annual dollar figure for how much Minnesota government pays to Somalian immigrants; estimates and assertions vary widely across outlets and ad...
Virginia leads in net federal funding per resident at $10,301 per person, according to World Population Review’s 2025 state-level summary . Other measures show different leaders by metric: Alaska and ...
Federal tax dollars primarily fund three large buckets: , together accounting for roughly half to two-thirds of federal program spending depending on the year; interest on the debt and economic securi...
USAspending.gov is the authoritative public database for federal contracts and shows hundreds of companies with active awards from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); prominent names that ...
Public reporting and procurement records show that since 2024 ICE has placed large-dollar orders with vendors including Quantico Tactical Incorporated, Geissele Automatics, Atlantic Diving Supply (ADS...
The federal government’s total annual outlays for fiscal year (FY) 2025 are roughly $7.0 trillion, up about $301 billion (4%) from FY 2024 (CBO estimate reported by analysts) and producing a $1.8 tril...
Elon Musk’s companies have received billions in public support over the past two decades through contracts, loans, tax credits and subsidies—estimates range from about $20 billion to $38 billion depen...
For ready, official state-by-state “balance of payments” data for federal fiscal years around 2024–2025, the clearest primary sources are the Rockefeller Institute’s balance-of-payments dashboards and...
Available reporting identifies a small set of states that are the largest net recipients of federal dollars per capita; multiple data compilations and analyses point to Alaska, Virginia, New Mexico, K...
No credible evidence supports claims that President Obama personally received government “royalty” payments for the Affordable Care Act or routine federal checks; such claims trace to satire and have ...
USAspending.gov is the authoritative source for federal obligations and can be used to identify which contractors receive ICE funds, but the specific, ready-made listing of "largest obligated ICE cont...
Available sources do not show any reporting that Castle Rock Entertainment or Castle Rock Productions held contracts with the Biden administration. The dataset provided contains local Castle Rock (Col...
Available reporting and public contracting records in the provided set do not show any US federal contract award notices that explicitly list “frantzve” as a party to Raytheon-related awards. Secondar...
Available public records in the provided search results do not list any Raytheon defense programs that name a person “Frantzve” as a subcontractor or supplier since 2015; the only potentially relevant...
Available public datasets and analyses show that “least federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid” is usually reported as a state-level ratio — often called “return on taxes paid” or “balance ...
The available analyses offer mixed and incomplete claims about which federal agencies received the largest FY2025 budget increases: one summary lists large absolute gains for Social Security and Medic...
Program-level mapping of taxes paid by residents of one state to federal spending received elsewhere exists in fragments: IRS collections by state are tabulated (gross collections) and researchers com...
Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) vehicles and GSA schedules create a two-step procurement picture: agencies award a master contract that establishes terms, then place task or delivery or...
Exporting and interpreting ICE award CSVs from USAspending.gov begins with understanding that USAspending is a consolidated, law-mandated repository of federal award and account data created under FFA...
USAspending.gov’s public search tools let researchers pull federal contract obligations and slice them by agency, fiscal year, award type and location; to list Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE...