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Matt Hummer: Federal spending declines, but contract spending on rise

Federal spending fell by 2 percent last year, but the rate of decline has slowed and at some agencies, contract spending is on the rise. Those are some of the f...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

April 26, 2016 9:55 am

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Matt Hummer, director of analytics, Govini

Federal spending fell by 2 percent last year, but the rate of decline has slowed and at some agencies, contract spending is on the rise. Those are some of the findings in the latest scorecard from Govini. Matt Hummer, Govini's director of analytics, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on contract spending trends.