Agency for International Development obligations in Maryland 7th District (MD-07)
The USAID × MD-07 cell on USAspending.gov is $655,906,748.26 in obligations across 66 awards. Sixty-six USAID-coded awards equal about three percent of MD-07’s district obligation total. Place of performance is MD-07, not a foreign post and not Maryland’s statewide USAID total. That pair is Agency for International Development and Maryland 7th District (MD-07) — not Maryland’s entire federal inflow, not Agency for International Development nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 2.9% of this district’s published obligation total ($22,936,491,356.93). Implied average obligation is about $9,937,981.03 ($655,906,748.26 ÷ 66). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- USAID in Maryland 7th District (MD-07): $655,906,748.26 across 66 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $9,937,981.03 per record; district share 2.9% of $22,936,491,356.93.
- Agency 072 × MD-07 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Maryland 7th District and Agency for International Development if live tables moved.
- Maryland federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $655,906,748.26.
A place-of-performance join: USAID × MD-07
Awarding agency 072 and congressional district MD-07 meet here. $655,906,748.26 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Agency for International Development’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Maryland 7th District (MD-07), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split USAID bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. 66 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a country-mission roster, a compact catalog, or a named-implementer file.
Dividing $655,906,748.26 by 66 yields about $9,937,981.03 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 66 awards is a compact USAID file. Named implementers and country programs are unpublished. Do not read 66 as sixty-six unique missions. Do not treat MD-07’s 072 cell as a synonym for every USAID account nationwide. Open Maryland 7th District for the district table without this agency filter, Agency for International Development for agency 072 without the MD-07 filter, Maryland federal spending for every awarding agency in the Maryland extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $655,906,748.26.
Agency for International Development as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list
USAspending labels awarding agency 072 as Agency for International Development. That code produced $655,906,748.26 when crossed with Maryland 7th District (MD-07) place of performance. The agency-wide 072 hub does not require MD-07 geography. The district hub does not require USAID. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 66 awards. The packet does not split USAID bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Maryland 7th District (MD-07) did not “cause” $655,906,748.26 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 072 × MD-07 only. It is not a country-mission roster, a compact catalog, or a named-implementer file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
Place of performance for Maryland 7th District (MD-07)
Maryland 7th District (MD-07) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MD-07 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Maryland districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 072. Maryland 7th District (MD-07) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Maryland. Other Maryland districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 072. Maryland 7th District (MD-07) is domestic USAspending geography. Agency 072 dollars coded here are still a place-of-performance join, not a claim that the work occurred in a listed country mission. HUD also meets MD-07 on another tie.
Obligation math for this join
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $655,906,748.26 is that kind of sum for Agency for International Development inside MD-07 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $655,906,748.26 as given.
Maryland’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 66-row USAID cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 66 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($9,937,981.03) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MD-07 USAID payment.
What a complete citation includes
Cite USAspending.gov: Agency for International Development (agency 072) obligated $655,906,748.26 on 66 awards coded to Maryland 7th District (MD-07). Name Agency for International Development and Maryland 7th District (MD-07) together. Keep the obligation word. If Maryland 7th District or Agency for International Development has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a country-mission roster, a compact catalog, or a named-implementer file. 2.9% of $22,936,491,356.93 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Using 2.9% and $9,937,981.03 without overclaiming
66 awards is a compact USAID file. Named implementers and country programs are unpublished. Do not read 66 as sixty-six unique missions. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $9,937,981.03) and the district share (2.9% of $22,936,491,356.93) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Maryland 7th District and Agency for International Development if the live tables moved.
Do not rank Maryland 7th District (MD-07) as more USAID-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 072 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 072 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $655,906,748.26 and 66 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much USAID spending is coded to Maryland 7th District (MD-07)?
- USAspending.gov lists $655,906,748.26 in USAID (agency 072) obligations across 66 awards coded to Maryland 7th District (MD-07). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Maryland’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 2.9% of the district’s published total ($22,936,491,356.93). Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Does $655,906,748.26 include every USAID program in MD-07?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split USAID bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. $655,906,748.26 is the combined obligation sum for agency 072 inside MD-07 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 66 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $655,906,748.26 cash already paid in Maryland 7th District (MD-07)?
- 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 $655,906,748.26 as checks already cleared in Maryland 7th District (MD-07) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 66 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Is Maryland 7th District (MD-07) ranked against other Maryland districts here?
- No. This page does not rank Maryland 7th District (MD-07) as a winner or loser. $655,906,748.26 and 66 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Agency for International Development and Maryland 7th District (MD-07) together without a league table.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.