https://blog.jbledger.com/tags/usaspending/Recent content in Usaspending on The Public LedgerHugoen-usSat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://blog.jbledger.com/posts/putting-the-federal-budget-in-a-database/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://blog.jbledger.com/posts/putting-the-federal-budget-in-a-database/USAspending, Treasury, and FRED — no API keys, one SQLite file, 46,042 rows, and an audit trail for every call. The spine the rest of my portfolio runs on, and the three things the public data got wrong along the way.