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The LedgerFollow the federal dollar

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Built from archived Treasury, IRS, CBO, USAspending, and state balance-of-payments releases.

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Vote labels are stored separately from the money. A state that looks like a "taker" on the ledger may simply be older, poorer, or home to a large base or lab, factors that show up on individual state pages with Census and Defense Department context.