SomaliScan: US Government Spending Archive (2003–2026) A unified, public domain archive of US government spending, campaign finance, lobbying, and federal employment data — aggregated from public records into a single queryable corpus. 60 tables · ~696M rows · ~37 GB compressed Parquet · CC0 1.0 Quickstart Every table is Apache Parquet. The fastest way to use this dataset is DuckDB — install it once, then query directly from this dataset without downloading anything: Or pull the whole thing locally with one command: What's in here Category Tables Rows Sources Federal spending 11 ~107M USASpending.gov, SBA FOIA, FEMA State / local spending 8 ~280M 50 state checkbook portals Political money 8 ~370M FEC bulk + multi state CFBs Lobbying 6 ~8M Senate LDA + California CAL ACCESS Salaries 2 ~39M FedScope/OPM + state HR Healthcare 6 ~50M CMS Open Payments, Medicare, NPI Entity graph 9 ~30M SAM.gov + IRS BMF + cross links Immigration / H 1B 4 ~2.6M DOL LCAs, USCIS Congress 3 ~2.4M Congress.gov, Federal Register Misc 3 ~870K SNAP retailers, NYC childcare Every table has its own config in the Dataset Viewer (dropdown above). Browse the file tree below for the actual Parquet files. Full docume…
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