Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia
Federal obligations from Department of Veterans Affairs to District of Columbia
Total obligated
$7.25B
Awards
3K
USAspending.gov records $6,855,804,466.90 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations under awarding agency 036 with place of performance in District of Columbia, across 2,555 awards. VA headquarters sits in the District, and readers often treat a DC Veterans Affairs cell as the national VA budget. Place of performance in the District is not agency 036 nationwide. The pair is Department of Veterans Affairs and District of Columbia — not District of Columbia’s entire federal inflow and not cash already paid. Average obligation is about $2.68 million ($6,855,804,466.90 ÷ 2,555).
Key figures
- VA in District of Columbia: $6,855,804,466.90 across 2,555 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $2.68 million per record, not a typical award size.
- Agency 036 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a program split.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia if the live table moved.
- District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are parents, not amounts to add into $6,855,804,466.90.
What the VA–District of Columbia join is
Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state DC meet here. $6,855,804,466.90 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Veterans Affairs’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to District of Columbia, and not an outlay register. Headquarters, health care, and benefits instruments can share 036. A thinner DC file with a larger mean is not proof that ‘all VA lives in Washington.’
2,555 is a moderate row count, consistent with a mix of formula vehicles and project awards, without naming those vehicles. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $6,855,804,466.90 by 2,555 yields about $2.68 million per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line.
Open Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia for the live filtered table, District of Columbia federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a District of Columbia filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $6,855,804,466.90.
Awarding agency 036 as the VA side
USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $6,855,804,466.90 when crossed with District of Columbia place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require DC geography. The District of Columbia hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 2,555 awards.
A veteran-of-the-capital census, a hospital ranking, and a medical-versus-benefits split are unpublished. 2,555 awards is much thinner than Kentucky’s 36,962-row VA file in this slice. A second VA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat District of Columbia’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.
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Questions
- How much VA spending is coded to District of Columbia?
- USAspending.gov lists $6,855,804,466.90 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 2,555 District of Columbia-coded awards. Agency 036 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not District of Columbia’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $2.68 million, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does this total include every VA program in District of Columbia?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $6,855,804,466.90 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside District of Columbia coding. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia to inspect award lines. 2,555 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.
- Is $6,855,804,466.90 cash already paid in District of Columbia?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $6,855,804,466.90 as checks already cleared in District of Columbia confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,555 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
- Where is the live VA–District of Columbia table?
- Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $6,855,804,466.90. Place of performance is DC, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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