I'm not sure what this comment means. The site is to help you follow the money of federal spending in districts. I never mention anything about "local spending". What are you trying to say here?
There are lots of places people would want to see contracts and spending..
A district is by definition local. Comparing spending of each national laboratory against its local VA is kind of pointless.
If you want to see how much is being spent on national research, you'll get useful information by displaying national spending on research. Looking up local spending on national research facilities will get you absolutely zero information for 99% of districts, because most districts don't have a national laboratory.
As it is currently designed, if you want to know how your local district is spending federal money, e.g. on roads or health care, thepublictab.com almost always shows useful information, except in rare cases where billing for a nexus of nation-wide contractors throws off the mix, for example by being in or near a federal district or hosting a national laboratory.
I took a look at your previous comments, it seems you just typically have something negative to say about most things on HN. That is fine, just the nature of the site I guess. The person above found it useful. One persons trash is another persons treasure I guess.
There are lots of places people would want to see contracts and spending..
https://thepublictab.com/districts/CA-14 https://thepublictab.com/districts/NM-01
etc..