Coronavirus Relief Fund in Washington

Three awards, one program–state cell

The pair reported here is CFDA 21.019 (CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND) crossed with Washington as place of performance. $2,169,691,672.34 is the obligation sum on records that match both keys. The national 21.019 program page includes every state. The Washington spending page includes every CFDA. This tie is the intersection only.

Three awards is an extremely concentrated count. Formula-style Treasury relief often posts a small number of large assistance awards to a state or its subunits rather than a long list of local invoices. The join still does not identify the three recipients, the award IDs, or the fiscal years of those records; those fields are absent from the packet facts.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,169,691,672.34 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 21.019 and WA. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Washington against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Three awards totaling $2,169,691,672.34 (about $723.23 million mean) is CRF tagged WA. The same three-award silhouette appears in other states’ 21.019 cells; this page only reports Washington State. Housing and transit catalogs are not part of $2,169,691,672.34.

CFDA 21.019 is not every emergency catalog

USAspending catalogs many assistance programs created around the same public-health emergency. CFDA 21.019 is one Treasury line. Provider relief, unemployment, nutrition, housing, and transit catalogs use other numbers and appear on other Washington program pages. Collapsing those catalogs into this $2,169,691,672.34 cell would invent a total the facts do not support.

The facts available on this page are state WA, CFDA 21.019, program name Coronavirus Relief Fund, $2,169,691,672.34 in obligations, and 3 awards. Outlays, clawbacks after the award date, and county maps are not in that list.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,169,691,672.34, 3 awards, CFDA 21.019, program title Coronavirus Relief Fund, and geography WA/Washington. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 3 awards into $2,169,691,672.34 is about $723.23 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

CRF is 21.019, not transit capital grants and not housing vouchers. $2,169,691,672.34 on three awards is Treasury relief tagged WA. Calling it “stimulus in Washington” without the CFDA would over-claim the packet.

Questions

How much Coronavirus Relief Fund money is obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $2,169,691,672.34 in CFDA 21.019 obligations with Washington place of performance across 3 awards. That figure is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay and not every emergency-related CFDA in the state.

Is this Washington, D.C.?

No. The state code is WA (Washington State). The $2,169,691,672.34 figure is the 21.019 × WA cell.

Why are there only 3 awards for billions of dollars?

The packet facts show 3 awards totaling $2,169,691,672.34. Treasury relief catalogs often post a few large assistance awards rather than thousands of small ones. The mean is about $723.2 million per award; the facts do not name the recipients.

Are these obligations the same as money spent?

No. USAspending obligations are commitments, not outlays. The $2,169,691,672.34 total is the obligation sum in the aggregate, not a proof of cash disbursed.