Many posts have explained how to get government data.
This is a depiction of money coming into (blue) and going out of (pink) the federal government’s coffers, created by the data-sharing site USAFacts. ... USAFacts is the brainchild of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. As he turned his attention to philanthropy, he wanted good data on where his money might best be spent. As his team began exploring what data the government had to offer a decade ago, they found it to be unsatisfying.
Given that we were speaking in February 2025, I felt it was important to ask the USAFacts team how a site predicated on sharing data released by the government was impacted by this particular government’s approach to data-sharing.
“Most of the data we use right now hasn’t really gone away — yet,” Coffin explained. “We’re in a little bit of a wait-and-see.” But, he added, “our mission remains the same: to provide data from the government in a way that is usable to the public.”
Uh, as long as there is data from the government to use.
