Government Accountability Office federal obligations in FY2024

GAO agency 005 overlapping FY2024

This page is a join: Government Accountability Office (agency 005) and FY2024. $514,596,733.61 is the obligation sum on that pair. It is not the government-wide FY2024 total on FY2024 federal spending, not every agency’s book on All agencies, and not cash already paid. FY2024 is a closed fiscal year in the yearlyTrend series used here; later ingests can still restate the cell. Correlation is not causation: a large FY2024 cell does not prove the agency caused a policy outcome, or the reverse.

FY2024 yearlyTrend amounts are obligations for that fiscal year, not a count of products published in 2024. A FY2025 GAO join is a separate overlay. Government Accountability Office is the agency parent without a year filter. FY2024 federal spending is the fiscal-year parent without this agency filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; donations do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Government Accountability Office as the awarding side

Agency 005 is the Government Accountability Office. USAspending stores that code on awarding-agency rows. Report titles, requestors, and reviewed agencies are not packet facts. Confusing this join with an Inspector General ledger or a hearing calendar would be a different table. Packet facts on the agency side are the name Government Accountability Office, code 005, all-year obligations $765,932,457.62, and 942 awards. Any other recipient, program mix, or contractor list would be invented.

Readers sometimes treat an awarding-agency total as a budget Congress passed for a named activity. $514,596,733.61 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation rollup tagged to Government Accountability Office in FY2024. Recommendation-implementation rates are unpublished here. Keep the headline labeled as FY2024 obligations for the Government Accountability Office. Donations do not fund this cell.

FY2024 on legislative-branch obligation rows

Fiscal year 2024 is the yearlyTrend year key. It is not a calendar year and not a count of events the agency oversees. Awards that carry a different year sit outside this cell even if the awarding agency is still 005. FY2024 obligations of $514,596,733.61 are about 67.2% of the agency’s $765,932,457.62 all-year obligation total in this extract. Do not treat the all-year $765,932,457.62 as if it were the FY2024 headline.

FY2024 federal spending shows how Government Accountability Office sits beside other awarding agencies in the same fiscal year. This packet has no outlay total, no recipient roster, and no NAICS split. All agencies is the directory of awarding agencies.

FY2024 versus GAO’s all-year obligation total

The extract lists 942 awards on the Government Accountability Office table. That is an agency-level award-record count, not a FY2024-only census published on this packet. Dividing $514,596,733.61 by 942 would mix a year cell with an all-year row count, so this page does not treat that quotient as a typical FY2024 invoice. Unique vendors are unpublished.

Audit-finding counts the join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $514,596,733.61 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared in FY2024 over-reads the field. The join cannot say that FY2024 specialized in the agency’s mission because of federal demand. Keep $514,596,733.61 labeled as Government Accountability Office obligations in FY2024. It is not a count of audits issued, a ranking of agencies reviewed, or a savings scorecard.

Hubs for the GAO × FY2024 cell

Open Government Accountability Office for the agency rollup, FY2024 federal spending for the fiscal-year rollup, All agencies for other awarding agencies, and All spending ties for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into an Inspector General ledger or a hearing calendar, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Government Accountability Office and FY2024, $514,596,733.61, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did the Government Accountability Office obligate in FY2024?

USAspending.gov records $514,596,733.61 in Government Accountability Office obligations for FY2024 (agency 005). That is an obligation aggregate for the agency-year pair, not an outlay and not the government-wide FY2024 total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Are these dollars the same as GAO report recommendations?

No. $514,596,733.61 is a yearlyTrend obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Government Accountability Office in FY2024. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both sides of the join in the citation.

Does 942 awards mean 942 audits?

No. 942 is the agency table’s award-record count in this extract, not a published FY2024-only recipient census. Unique vendors and places are unpublished. Modifications can add rows. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both sides of the join in the citation.

Which pages sit beside Government Accountability Office FY2024?

Government Accountability Office is the agency parent. FY2024 federal spending is the FY2024 parent. All agencies lists awarding agencies. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Government Accountability Office × FY2024 at $514,596,733.61.