Washington
Federal spending in Washington (wa)
Total Obligations
$398.15B
Total Awards
333K
Recipients
0
Per Capita
$6K
FY 2026
% of GDP
N/A
Population
8.0M
Median Income
N/A
Washington state (WA) accounts for $401.45B in federal obligations in USAspending.gov award files covering fiscal years 2024 through 2026. SpendingVault reports that amount as obligations, not Treasury outlays. 333,984 awards are tagged to Washington in the same window. This page is the WA extract, not the District of Columbia.
Key figures
- Washington state (WA) shows $401.45B in obligations for FY2024–2026.
- USAspending.gov files count 333,984 awards for WA in that span.
- This extract is WA, not the District of Columbia.
- The $401.45B is obligations, not Treasury outlays.
Washington state’s $401.45B obligation book
The $401.45B figure belongs to Washington state, postal code WA, from USAspending.gov awards for FY2024–2026. It is an obligation sum: commitments on awards, not cash leaving the Treasury. It is not Olympia’s state budget and not a District of Columbia total. SpendingVault keeps the WA label on this hub.
Reuse $401.45B with the two-decimal form and the WA identifier. A headline that says only Washington can be read as D.C. The companion statistic is 333,984 awards in the same FY2024–2026 extract.
333,984 awards tagged to WA
333,984 awards is a record count for the WA file. Modifications and assistance actions in the source add rows. It is not a unique-recipient census, and this packet does not publish one. Dollars and rows remain separate columns.
The Washington spending hub shows $401.45B beside 333,984 awards. This summary does not invent a typical award size from those two totals. Distribution, if needed, lives in the hub tables.
Full analysis: Federal obligations for Washington state (WA) →
Questions
- How much federal spending is obligated in Washington state?
- USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault show $401.45B in obligations for Washington (WA) in FY2024–2026. That is not a Treasury outlay total. The files count 333,984 awards for WA in the same window.
- Is this Washington state or the District of Columbia?
- This hub is Washington state, postal code WA, with $401.45B in obligations and 333,984 awards for FY2024–2026. The District of Columbia is a separate extract on SpendingVault.
- Are Washington’s USAspending dollars outlays?
- No. $401.45B is an obligation sum from award files. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury. SpendingVault’s WA page does not convert one into the other.
- Which years does the WA $401.45B cover?
- Federal fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026 combined. The packet does not publish a single-year Washington state obligation total.
Obligations from USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault. Not Treasury outlays.
State ties
- Department of Commerce obligations in Washington 10th District (WA-10)
- Department of Defense in Washington 7th District (WA-07)
- Department of Education obligations in Washington 10th District (WA-10)
- Department of Energy in Washington 4th District (WA-04)
- Department of Health and Human Services obligations in Washington 7th District (WA-07)
- Department of Homeland Security federal obligations in Washington 10th District (WA-10)
- Department of State obligations in Washington 1st District (WA-01)
- Department of the Interior obligations in Washington 4th District (WA-04)
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Source: USAspending.gov · All States