Yesterday, one company collected 2.8 billion dollars — nearly the entire federal budget of the day.

That's Optum Public Sector Solutions, the UnitedHealth subsidiary that runs health insurance for veterans.

The Department of Veterans Affairs obligated 2.9 billion total, and Optum took nearly all of it across three transactions.

The biggest single award was 1.1 billion, tagged as the FY26 first-quarter express report.

Federal spending on the same weekday last week was 415 million. Yesterday's total ran seven times higher.

Health insurance carriers pulled in more federal money yesterday than cheese, satellites, and software design combined.

Want to know which company swallowed yesterday's federal budget?