sworn in as the 44th president of the United States , administration officials unveiled a sleek interactive version of Whitehouse.gov , the official White House Web site . Recovery.gov , launched within hours of Obama 's signing of the stimulus bill Tuesday , continues the theme of offering information in a user-friendly format . Visitors are greeted by a brief video address from Obama . `` The American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan represents a strategic and significant investment in our country 's future , '' the president explains . `` The size and scale of this plan demand unprecedented efforts to root out waste , inefficiency and unnecessary spending . Recovery.gov will be the online portal for these efforts . '' The site will publish information on how the stimulus funds will be spent in a `` timely , targeted and transparent manner , '' Obama said . Edward Glaeser , a professor of economics at Harvard University , said transparency has `` been a watch word for good government types for years . '' `` There is sense that taxpayers will feel a lot better about this if they actually know where their money is going , '' Glaeser
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- In keeping with President Obama 's pledge of an administration that is `` transparent and accountable , '' the White House has launched a site that promises to show taxpayers where their stimulus-package dollars are being spent . Visitors to Recovery.gov are greeted with a video message from President Obama . The site , Recovery.gov , allows visitors to track efforts to jump-start a teetering economy in the midst of a slumping housing market and massive job losses . It breaks down the $ 787 billion package by category : $ 288 billion for tax relief , $ 59 billion for health care , and so on . The site promises that more detailed spending information will be posted once federal agencies decide how they are going to allocate the money . Learn more about where the money is going '' Using graphs , charts and layman 's terminology , the online portal is an example of how the tech-savvy Obama administration is taking its message to the American people . While running for president , Obama harnessed the Web 's fundraising and social-networking capabilities to energize his grass-roots campaign . And the moment he was