When does the federal government spend its money?
Not evenly: in fiscal year 2025, the last complete one, 19.1% of the year's contract obligations fell in September, the last month of the federal year. Grants peaked in January at 23.9%. The instruments have different shapes and a total that averages them describes none of them.
Answer current as of
Where this comes from
The figure is the result of a checked-in query, obligations_by_fiscal_month.sql, run against the published data. Every number on this page can be traced to it.