FY2024 federal obligations in Maryland’s 8th district

What $61.2 billion counts for MD-08

The $61.2 billion total is the sum of award obligations USAspending.gov tags to place of performance in Maryland District 08 for FY2024. An obligation is a legal commitment on an award record. It is not cash already paid, and it is not Maryland’s state budget. SpendingVault does not convert the $61.2 billion into outlays. Maryland District 08’s $61.2 billion is the FY2024 obligation file for that mapped seat only. It does not absorb MD-05 or MD-04, and it does not recast 25,801 awards as unique vendors.

FY2024 is the only fiscal year in this packet. First year and last year are both 2024, so the $61.2 billion is not a multi-year stack. Federal fiscal years begin on October 1. Later USAspending.gov corrections can move the indexed total and the 25,801-award count. Federal FY2024 is the entire year window here. Anyone stacking a later fiscal year onto $61.2 billion is adding a number this packet does not contain. Keep the 25,801-award count in the same FY2024 citation.

Place of performance, not contractor headquarters

Congressional district on this page is the USAspending place-of-performance field, not the recipient’s headquarters ZIP. A vendor based in another state can still appear here if the work, facility, or assistance location is coded to Maryland’s 8th district. The reverse is also true: a Maryland-headquartered recipient can post dollars to a different district. Place-of-performance coding is why a non-Maryland headquarters can still sit in the MD-08 table. The 25,801 rows follow that field, not the contractor’s legal address.

MD-08 is a numbered House district in the source file, not a USAspending 90 or 98 bucket. Those 90 and 98 codes are unspecified or non-voting place-of-performance bins. This page is the mapped 8th district table, not the residual statewide bucket. Because MD-08 is a numbered House seat, it is the wrong page for unspecified Maryland dollars. Those residual rows, if any, live under district 90 or 98, not inside the $61.2 billion mapped total.

25,801 awards in the FY2024 extract

25,801 is a record count from the FY2024 USAspending.gov extract, not a census of unique companies. Modifications, assistance actions, and related award rows can each add a line. Dollars and rows move independently: the $61.2 billion and the 25,801 awards are separate columns.

This packet does not publish a typical award size, a recipient roster, or an agency mix. Inferring an average from $61.2 billion and 25,801 awards would invent a statistic the source file does not supply here. Use the district hub for the underlying rows.

Because 25,801 is a row count, two modifications on the same award can look like two awards. The Maryland District 08 hub is the place to see those lines. This packet still does not name recipients, programs, or agencies inside the $61.2 billion.

Obligations are not outlays

Obligation and outlay are different USAspending series. The $61.2 billion on this page is the obligation series. Outlays measure cash leaving the Treasury and can lag, split across years, or never match the original commitment one-for-one. SpendingVault’s district tables stay on obligations.

If another Maryland spending headline disagrees with $61.2 billion, check whether that headline uses outlays, a different fiscal year, or recipient location instead of place of performance. Keep the FY2024 obligation label when citing MD-08.

A usable MD-08 citation names FY2024, USAspending.gov, place of performance, obligations, $61.2 billion, and 25,801 awards. Dropping any of those labels invites someone to paste the figure onto an outlay chart or a headquarters map.

How MD-08 sits next to statewide Maryland

Maryland’s statewide hub rolls up every mapped district plus any unspecified buckets for the state. District 08 is one slice of that geography, limited to place-of-performance rows coded MD-08. It is not a substitute for the full Maryland total.

The all-districts index lists other congressional place-of-performance pages in the same format. Compare MD-08 to those pages only on obligations, FY2024, and place of performance. This packet does not rank District 08 against other districts.

Maryland’s other mapped districts have their own hubs and their own FY2024 obligation totals. This packet does not quote those other totals. Stay on MD-08 when the question is the 8th district’s place-of-performance file.

Citing Maryland District 08 without mixing files

The $61.2 billion FY2024 obligation total for place of performance in Maryland District 08 is a file statistic, not a verdict on local contractors and not a statement about Maryland’s congressional delegation. SpendingVault indexes USAspending.gov award records. It does not score the 25,801 awards as efficient, wasteful, or typical.

When a spreadsheet already uses recipient ZIP, calendar year 2024, or Treasury outlays, it is not this hub. Rebuild the comparison on place of performance, federal FY2024, and obligations, or do not place $61.2 billion next to those other columns. The all-districts index and the Maryland state page remain the related geography, still on the same series rules.

Questions

How much federal spending is in Maryland’s 8th district?

USAspending.gov shows $61.2 billion in FY2024 obligations with place of performance in Maryland District 08. That is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay, and not Maryland’s state budget. The same FY2024 extract counts 25,801 awards. First year and last year in this packet are both 2024, so the figure is a single fiscal year.

Does MD-08 spending mean the contractor is headquartered there?

No. The district field is USAspending place of performance, not recipient headquarters. Work coded to Maryland’s 8th district can belong to a recipient based in another Maryland district, another state, or farther away. A MD-08 headquarters can also map dollars to other districts if performance is coded there.

Are the $61.2 billion in Maryland District 08 outlays?

No. $61.2 billion is an obligation sum from FY2024 award records. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and are a different USAspending series. SpendingVault’s MD-08 page does not convert obligations into outlays. Cite the figure with the obligation label and the FY2024 window.

How many federal awards are tagged to MD-08?

The FY2024 extract counts 25,801 awards with place of performance in Maryland District 08. That figure is a record count, including modifications in the source, not a unique-recipient census. This packet does not divide $61.2 billion by 25,801 to invent a typical award size.