PUBLIC MONEY. SHARED QUESTIONS.
Understand what government funding means. Follow the source, put the amount in perspective, and explore the tradeoffs for yourself.
Follow the money ↘01 / EXPLORE
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APPROPRIATED · FY2024 · NOMINAL DOLLARS
WHAT THIS NUMBER MEANS
An appropriation provides budget authority. It does not tell us how much was committed or paid, where purchases occurred, or whether the program achieved its goals.
Read the enacted law ↗02 / PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE
Divide this appropriation by a historical resident population estimate. No income, tax details, or sign-up needed.
Population is fixed to Vintage 2024 for reproducibility. We round only the displayed result, using integer arithmetic.
per resident
An illustration of scale—not your tax bill, an actual refund, or money you are owed. Residents include minors and noncitizens.
03 / EXPLORE A WHAT-IF
Choose a hypothetical reduction and how much of that gross amount would go to equal distribution. The rest stays unallocated in this exercise.
This is arithmetic, not a savings forecast. Existing commitments, timing, cancellation costs, and legal limits can change what is actually available.
Your inputs stay in this page. Download includes assumptions and source versions.
ASK THE NEXT QUESTION
A dollar amount alone cannot establish effectiveness, waste, or wrongdoing. This pilot has not evaluated program outcomes. Keep, reduce, cut, increase, and unsure polls will require a separate participation design before we collect responses.
04 / OUR METHOD
Requested is proposed. Appropriated provides budget authority. Obligated is committed. Outlays are payments. We label the stage and preserve its period.
These examples are specific appropriation paragraphs, not account-wide final totals. We do not add them into a federal budget total or compare them to cash outlays.
Each record includes the enacted law, location, amount, and funding availability. Download the pilot records ↓
Dataset: pilot-2026-11-05-v1. Calculator: equal-share-v1. First source check: November 5, 2026. Independent review and a comprehensive reconciliation remain pending. FY2024 runs October 1, 2023–September 30, 2024; availability can extend beyond it.
Initial release: two historical source records and browser-local scenario calculations. Future material corrections will receive a new version and a dated explanation. Report a possible error through this project's working chat while the pilot contact address is being verified.
A DRIFTWING MEDIA PILOT
“America’s Shareholders” is a civic stewardship metaphor. It does not mean tradable shares, a legal dividend entitlement, or influence proportional to taxes paid.
Our aim is nonpartisan transparency across spending categories. We publish sources and limitations so you can reach your own judgment.
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This prototype uses the project owner's existing resources. It has no paid placements, affiliate links, or donation collection. Operator details and any future funding relationships will be disclosed before a broader launch.