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Have some information on where the Federal Budget money is going? Not sure how to participate? You can use the instructions below to find out how correctly add your data to the wiki.

Step By Step Guide to Participating

Step One: Locate something to Contribute

Tax Payer Treasure Hunt is always looking for accurate data. We are interested in documenting evidence of exactly what the US Federal budget is spent on, particularly when the reality is different from mainstream news reports or official government versions.

Some good sources for this data are:

Best of all, your own personal experience while working for a government agency or government contractor

• Filings of public data that are not closely scrutinized by the media
• Little known blogs or websites
• Leaked documents or insider information

If you find mainstream media reports about others who have found this sort of information, you can contribute a News Story.

Once you have something to contribute, make you sure review our Editorial Guidelines section and check your information meets our requirements.

If you're all set then, your need to do:

Step Two: Sign Up!

Just visit the Create Account page, fill out the form, and follow the instructions.

Step Three: Choose the Appropriate Category, or Create a New Page

Although we are interested in all federal expenses, our early focus is on the expenses surrounding the President and his administration.

This means we have various categories you can submit to:

• Compensation of the President
• The Executive Residence Operating Expenses
• The Executive Residence Repair and Restoration
• The Vice President's Downtown Office
• Residence of the Vice President Operating Expenses
• The White House Office
• Office of Policy Development
• National Security Council
• One-eighth of the Office of Administration
• The President's Unanticipated Needs
• White House Center Service Delivery Team
• U.S. Postal Service, White House Branch
• National Archives Professional Support of the White House
• Value of gifts supplied by the Department of State
• White House Communications Agency
• Air Force One
• Helicopter Squadron HMX-One
• Camp David
• Salary Costs for the White House Communications Agency, Air Force One, HMX-One, and Camp David
• U.S. Secret Service
• Commission of the White House Fellowships
• National Park Service White House Liaison Office
• Cost of Detailees (who work for more than 6 months in a calendar year)

Simply type the name of your expense in the appropriate field, and then click the relevant 'Add Expense' button. Reputed academic writing specialists are able to accomplish the best research papers for you. So, that supposes to be real to get essay papers at the writing papers company where such professional academic writers work. Now go to Step Four: Fill in your Expense Details.

Do you have data on a federal budget expense that doesn't fit under Governmental Expenses? e.g. Do you have a expense related to the Health Care, or Military services?

Although our initial focus does not cover these expenses, you are still welcome to contribute them. All you need to do is start a wiki page, with a relevant title, and type in the information you have. Remember, our Editorial Guidelines still apply, and you must include a reference for your data. For information on creating and changing standard mediawiki pages, see Page Editing.

Over time, we will gradually migrate data for other areas of the federal budget into our forms based database.

Step Four: Fill in your Expense Details

In the Expense Form page, you will see a number of fields to fill in (e.g. Expense Amount, Expense Details, Type of Source, Source Details, and SourceURL). Simply follow the instructions and click Save Page.

You're done, your expense has been added!