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What does the federal government buy?

Of the things the federal government buys under contract, the largest single category in fiscal year 2026 is MEDICAL- MANAGED HEALTHCARE, at $34.4 billion. That is contracts only: grants, loans and direct payments carry no product code, and together they are most federal spending.

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Where this comes from

The figure is the result of a checked-in query, products_and_services_by_obligations.sql, run against the published data. Every number on this page can be traced to it.