Tessa Monroe

Standards Editor

Methodology, data caveats, and editorial standards for federal spending data

Tessa Monroe oversees methodology and editorial standards for TaxDollarData. The role documents how USASpending data is sourced and refreshed, frames the dataset's caveats — obligations are not outlays, multiyear ceilings can inflate totals, and classified spending is excluded by statute — and handles how corrections are processed. Explainers, comparisons, and glossary entries are AI-assisted in research and drafting, then editorially reviewed against the primary USASpending and DATA Act sources before publication.

Areas of focus

DATA Act disclosure rulesobligations vs. outlaysparent-subsidiary rollupssource verificationcorrections policy

How our content is produced

Content is produced by an AI-augmented editorial team: research and drafting are AI-assisted and reviewed by the named desk editor against primary public-data sources before publication.

See our Editorial Policy, Fact-Checking Policy, and Corrections Policy.

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