The Money Trail
Early beta · May 24, 2026Tracking all 3 FY26 spending bills across 12 appropriations subcommittees. Recipient and program data sourced from USAspending.gov, DoD budget exhibits, and Senate Lobbying Disclosure filings; where public data has limitations, we say so on the page.
FY2026 appropriated so far · tracked by The Money Trail

$1.50T

Across 3 enacted bills covering all 12 of the 12 annual appropriations subcommittees. Defense is the single largest category at roughly $852B — more than half the total.
Bills enacted, FY26
3
covering 12 of 12 subcommittees
Bills enacted, FY25
12
for comparison
Shutdowns this FY
2
43-day + 76-day
Days since shutdown
24
DHS lapse ended Apr 30
Spending bills enacted this fiscal year
Each card opens that bill's full profile with recipients, earmarks, and sus findings.
H.R. 7147 · PL 119-86
Signed Apr 30, 2026
$100B

Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026

Funded DHS, FEMA, ICE, CBP, Coast Guard, and TSA — signed after a 76-day DHS-specific shutdown. The longest department-level lapse in modern history.

Sponsor: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK-4)0 earmarks3 sus findingsOpen profile →
H.R. 7148 · PL 119-75
Signed Feb 3, 2026
$1.23T

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026

The largest single law enacted this year. Four-part minibus bundling Defense ($839B), Labor-HHS-Ed ($195B), T-HUD ($108B), and Financial Services + National Security-State ($89B, including most U.S. foreign aid).

Sponsor: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK-4)3000 earmarks5 sus findingsOpen profile →
H.R. 6938 · PL 119-74
Signed Jan 23, 2026
$174.6B

Commerce-Justice-Science, Energy-Water, and Interior-Environment Approps

Three of the 12 annual appropriations bills — covering DOJ, NASA, NSF, DOE, EPA, Forest Service, and more.

Sponsor: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK-4)612 earmarks6 sus findingsOpen profile →
FY26 appropriations complete
All 12 subcommittees are now funded for FY26. Deep ingestion continues for HR 7148 and HR 7147 — recipients, earmarks, and sus findings to come.
Where the money flows
Across all bills tracked. Subcommittee jurisdictions sum the underlying agencies.
Defense
$839.2B · 56%
Labor, HHS, Education
$194.9B · 13%
Transportation, HUD
$108B · 7%
Homeland Security
$100B · 7%
Financial Services + Nat-Sec-State
$89B · 6%
Commerce, Justice, Science
$78.0B · 5%
Energy and Water Development
$58.0B · 4%
Interior and Environment
$38.6B · 3%
When Defense, Labor-HHS, T-HUD, and the other appropriations bills are ingested, this section will show all 12 subcommittee jurisdictions side by side.
Top recipients across all tracked bills
Ranked by dollars received in enacted bills + downstream awards.
1
Lockheed Martin Corporationprofile →
Corporation · DoD (primary)
$62B
2
RTX Corporation (Raytheon)profile →
Corporation · DoD
$28B
3
General Dynamicsprofile →
Corporation · DoD
$22B
4
Northrop Grummanprofile →
Corporation · DoD
$19B
5
Boeing Defense, Space & Securityprofile →
Corporation · DoD + NASA
$18B
6
L3Harris Technologiesprofile →
Corporation · DoD
$11B
7
Huntington Ingalls Industriesprofile →
Corporation · DoD (Navy)
$9B
8
BAE Systems
Corporation · DoD
$6B
9
Battelle Memorial Instituteprofile →
Nonprofit · DOE
$3.1B
10
University of California
University · DOE
$2.8B
11
Bechtel National
Corporation · DOE
$2.1B
12
Moderna, Inc.
Corporation · HHS/ASPR-BARDA — mRNA vaccine licensure (FY24)
$1.75B
13
CoreCivicprofile →
Corporation · DHS/ICE
$1.5B
14
Lockheed Martin Space
Corporation · NASA
$1.24B
15
GEO Groupprofile →
Corporation · DHS/ICE
$1.2B
16
California Institute of Technology
University · NASA
$1.18B
17
Johns Hopkins University
University · HHS/NIH grants
$829.5M
18
University of California, San Francisco
University · HHS/NIH grants
$811.3M
19
University of Michigan
University · HHS/NIH grants
$729.1M
20
UnitedHealth Group (OptumServe)
Corporation · HHS/CMS + HHS/HRSA (CIO-SP3 IT + COVID uninsured claims)
$344.9M
21
Merck & Co. (Merck Sharp & Dohme)
Corporation · HHS/ASPR-BARDA — ERVEBO Ebola vaccine (10-yr contract)
$155.8M
Top sus findings
Patterns worth a closer look, across all bills.
Concentration
#01 · HR 7148

Five defense contractors capture ~$150B/year — 18% of the entire Defense budget

$150B
Read more →
Off-Scope
#02 · HR 6938

$100M from a U.S. Interior bill is going abroad for wildlife conservation

$100M
Read more →
Concentration
#03 · HR 7147

Two private prison companies hold ~90% of ICE detention contracts

$2.7B
Read more →
Lobby Overlap
#04 · HR 7148

Lockheed Martin spent $15M lobbying Congress, gets $62B in this bill

$62B
Read more →
Foreign spending · across all tracked bills

$61.3B of tracked appropriations flows abroad (4.1%)

Most U.S. foreign aid is in HR 7148's National Security-State division — Israel and Egypt foreign military financing, Jordan support, PEPFAR global health programs, and embassy operations worldwide. HR 6938 adds science cooperation, ITER, and wildlife conservation. War supplementals (Ukraine emergency aid, etc.) are tracked separately and not included here.

$10B
PEPFAR (~50 countries)
HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria programs globally
$5.0B
USAID Africa programs
Country-specific dev across sub-Saharan Africa
$3.9B
Int'l Disaster Assistance
Emergency humanitarian response globally
$3.3B
Israel
Foreign Military Financing per MOU
$3.0B
USAID Asia programs
Indo-Pacific dev, Vietnam, Indonesia, others
$2.9B
Migration & Refugee
Refugee resettlement, UNHCR contributions
$2.5B
USAID Middle East programs
Excludes Israel/Egypt/Jordan FMF
$2.5B
USAID Latin America
Central America, Colombia, Haiti
$1.7B
World Bank IDA + MDBs
U.S. capital to dev banks
$1.6B
International Narcotics Control
Counter-drug operations globally
$1.45B
Egypt
FMF + ESF per Camp David framework
$1.45B
Jordan
FMF + ESF under longstanding MOU
$1.4B
UN peacekeeping
U.S. share of UN peacekeeping ops
$1.0B
Taiwan Security Cooperation
Defense bill TSCI for deterring PRC
$0.9B
Int'l broadcasting (VOA, RFE/RL)
Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Asia
$0.7B
NATO operations + HQ
U.S. share of NATO common funding
$400M
Ukraine (Defense baseline)
Excludes war supplementals
$300M
Climate finance + GCF
International climate adaptation
$280M
European Space Agency
ISS, JWST, Artemis (HR 6938)
$240M
France (ITER fusion)
Int'l fusion reactor (HR 6938)
$200M
Baltic Security Initiative
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
$150M
IMET
Foreign military officer training
$140M
Japan (space cooperation)
ISS Kibo, Artemis (HR 6938)
$110M
Austria (IAEA HQ)
Voluntary IAEA contributions (HR 6938)
$80M
Canada (space cooperation)
Canadarm, Artemis (HR 6938)
Recently signed
Chronological view of bills as they're enacted into law.
Apr 30, 2026
H.R. 7147
$100B
Feb 3, 2026
H.R. 7148
$1.23T
Jan 23, 2026
H.R. 6938
$174.6B
Future bills
More to come as FY26 progresses.
Explore
Drill into the people, organizations, and sectors behind FY26 spending.
Sector view
The defense industrial base

All 8 defense primes, 57 named weapons programs, $130B+ in FY26 procurement. One page, click any system for details.

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Committees · new
Where money decisions get made

Every committee + subcommittee of the 119th Congress. Appropriations, Armed Services, Intel, Foreign Affairs get the deep treatment.

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Recipients
Federal contract recipients

Defense primes, lab operators, detention contractors. Lifetime contracts, lobbying ratios, major programs.

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Members of Congress
All 535 Members, 119th Congress

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