USAspending obligations in Texas District 21

What the $8.8 billion obligation total is

The $8.8 billion figure is the FY2024 obligation aggregate for TX-21 place of performance. An obligation is a legal commitment on an award record. It is not a Treasury outlay and not Texas’s state budget. SpendingVault does not convert the 21st-district total into cash paid inside the district that year. The matching record count is 13,460.

Federal FY2024 starts October 1. First year and last year are both 2024. A calendar-year overlay is a different product. If another Texas headline uses outlays or recipient location, it will not match $8.8 billion even when the district number is the same.

Thirteen thousand four hundred sixty award records

13,460 awards summing to $8.8 billion is a mid-size action file. The packet does not say those rows are a few large contracts or many small ones. It also does not publish unique recipients. Keep $8,835,466,247.05 and 13,460 as independent facts. Do not compute an average award size from this packet.

The 13,460-award count is a single-fiscal-year stock of actions, including modifications. It is not a lifetime inventory of work performed in Texas’s 21st district. Later USAspending.gov revisions can change both figures.

Place of performance assigns TX-21

Recipient headquarters do not place a row in Texas District 21. The USAspending district field is where performance is coded. Vendors based elsewhere in Texas or in other states can still appear in the $8.8 billion if the performance tag is TX-21.

An office inside the 21st can be missing from the 13,460 records when performance is coded to another Texas district, to Texas’s unspecified District 90 bucket, or to another state. HQ lists of 21st-district contractors are a different cut from this file.

Numbered District 21, not a 90 bucket

Texas District 21 is a voting congressional district. USAspending uses 90 and 98 for unspecified or non-voting place-of-performance bins. This page’s $8.8 billion is mapped to TX-21. Residual Texas performance that lacked a numbered seat would sit on a 90 hub, not here.

The Texas state page mixes numbered districts and leftover codes. That statewide roll-up will not equal $8,835,466,247.05. Use the Texas District 21 hub when the question is the 21st district’s FY2024 performance-location obligations.

Related Texas pages and citation rules

The Texas District 21 hub is the award table. The Texas state page is the statewide view. The all-districts index lists other Texas numbered seats and any 90/98 buckets. This packet does not quote those other totals, and none of them sits inside $8.8 billion.

A complete TX-21 citation names numbered District 21, FY2024, USAspending.gov, place of performance, obligations, $8.8 billion, and 13,460 awards. Calling the 21st an unspecified district would misread the code. Work coded to TX-21 from a vendor based elsewhere does enter $8.8 billion. A headquarters in the 21st without a TX-21 tag does not.

Texas District 21 can be briefed as $8.8 billion in FY2024 obligations on 13,460 awards with numbered code TX-21. Treat 13,460 as an action stock, not unique vendors. Keep other Texas numbered districts and any District 90 leftover on other rows. None of their totals sits inside $8.8 billion. What it supplies is TX-21 place-of-performance commitments from USAspending.gov, not outlays, not a headquarters extract, and not a multi-year series. A headquarters in the 21st without a TX-21 tag does not enter this file. Work coded to TX-21 from a vendor based elsewhere does enter $8.8 billion. The Texas state page rolls all Texas codes and will not equal $8,835,466,247.05. FY2024 is the only year in the facts. Federal FY2024 starts October 1. Later USAspending corrections can revise both the dollar sum and the award count. Until a later extract, report $8.8 billion and 13,460 awards for TX-21 place of performance as obligations, not outlays.

Questions

How much federal spending is in Texas District 21?

USAspending.gov records $8.8 billion in FY2024 obligations with Texas District 21 place of performance, across 13,460 awards. The exact sum is $8,835,466,247.05. These are obligations, not outlays. The facts cover FY2024 only. Geography is performance location, not headquarters.

What does 13,460 awards represent?

13,460 is the FY2024 award-record count for TX-21 place of performance. It is not a unique-vendor count. The packet does not explain the mix of large and small actions. Do not divide $8.8 billion by 13,460. Use the Texas District 21 hub to inspect lines.

Is Texas District 21 an unspecified USAspending code?

No. District 21 is a numbered Texas House seat. Codes 90 and 98 are unspecified or non-voting buckets. The $8.8 billion total is mapped to TX-21. Unmapped Texas performance, if present, would appear on a 90-coded page.

Do 21st-district headquarters automatically enter this file?

No. Only awards with TX-21 place of performance enter the $8.8 billion and 13,460-award totals. A headquarters in the district is not sufficient. Work coded to another Texas district or another state will appear elsewhere. Cite obligations and FY2024 with the performance tag.