Agency for International Development obligations in Maryland 8th District (MD-08)
USAspending.gov records $1,693,792,252.58 in Agency for International Development (agency 072) obligations with place of performance in Maryland 8th District (MD-08), across 64 awards. Sixty-four USAID-coded awards equal about three percent of MD-08's district obligation total. A thin file with a very large implied mean is a concentration statistic, not a named-implementer roster. That pair is Agency for International Development and Maryland 8th District (MD-08) — not Maryland's entire federal inflow, not Agency for International Development nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 2.8% of this district's published obligation total ($61,236,689,187.98). Implied average obligation is about $26,465,503.95 ($1,693,792,252.58 ÷ 64). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- USAID in Maryland 8th District (MD-08): $1,693,792,252.58 across 64 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $26,465,503.95 per record; district share 2.8% of $61,236,689,187.98.
- Agency 072 × MD-08 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Maryland 8th 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 $1,693,792,252.58.
What the USAID–MD-08 join is
Awarding agency 072 and congressional district MD-08 meet here. $1,693,792,252.58 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 8th District (MD-08), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split USAID bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. 64 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a country-mission roster, an implementer directory, or a named-grantee file.
Dividing $1,693,792,252.58 by 64 yields about $26,465,503.95 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 64 awards against a one-point-seven-billion-dollar USAID cell is a thin file. Do not read 64 as sixty-four unique vendors or sixty-four country programs. Do not treat MD-08's 072 cell as a synonym for every USAID account nationwide. Open Maryland 8th District for the district table without this agency filter, Agency for International Development for agency 072 without a MD-08 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 $1,693,792,252.58.
Awarding agency 072 as the USAID side
USAspending labels awarding agency 072 as Agency for International Development. That code produced $1,693,792,252.58 when crossed with Maryland 8th District (MD-08) place of performance. The agency-wide 072 hub does not require MD-08 geography. The district hub does not require USAID. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 64 awards. The packet does not split USAID bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Maryland 8th District (MD-08) did not cause $1,693,792,252.58 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 072 × MD-08 only. This cell is not a country-mission roster, an implementer directory, or a named-grantee 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.
Maryland 8th District (MD-08) as place of performance
Maryland 8th District (MD-08) 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-08 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Maryland districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 072. Maryland 8th District (MD-08) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Maryland. Other Maryland districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 072. Maryland 8th District (MD-08) is a domestic congressional geography used as place of performance. This page is not an overseas-mission ledger.
Maryland federal spending shows how agency 072 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $1,693,792,252.58 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Maryland 8th District (MD-08) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Agency for International Development. The district-wide obligation total published here is $61,236,689,187.98; $1,693,792,252.58 is the USAID slice of that denominator.
Obligations, not outlays
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $1,693,792,252.58 is that kind of sum for Agency for International Development inside MD-08 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 $1,693,792,252.58 as given.
Maryland's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 64-row USAID cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 64 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 ($26,465,503.95) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MD-08 USAID payment.
How to cite USAID in MD-08
Cite USAspending.gov: Agency for International Development (agency 072) obligated $1,693,792,252.58 on 64 awards coded to Maryland 8th District (MD-08). Name Agency for International Development and Maryland 8th District (MD-08) together. Keep the obligation word. If Maryland 8th 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, an implementer directory, or a named-grantee file. 2.8% of $61,236,689,187.98 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Keep Agency for International Development, Maryland 8th District (MD-08), $1,693,792,252.58, and 64 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Agency for International Development is the 072 parent without a MD-08 filter. Maryland federal spending is the Maryland parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with USAID does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.
Reading a moderate USAID file in MD-08
64 awards against a one-point-seven-billion-dollar USAID cell is a thin file. Do not read 64 as sixty-four unique vendors or sixty-four country programs. Place of performance MD-08 does not convert USAID dollars into a Maryland foreign-aid ranking. Interior and Justice cells on the same stamp remain other joins. 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 $26,465,503.95) and the district share (2.8% of $61,236,689,187.98) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Maryland 8th District and Agency for International Development if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much USAID spending is coded to Maryland 8th District (MD-08)?
- USAspending.gov lists $1,693,792,252.58 in Agency for International Development obligations across 64 awards with place of performance in Maryland 8th District (MD-08). Agency 072 × MD-08 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Maryland's complete federal ledger. The cell is 2.8% of the district's published total ($61,236,689,187.98). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $26,465,503.95, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $1,693,792,252.58 include every USAID program in MD-08?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split USAID bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. $1,693,792,252.58 is the combined obligation sum for agency 072 inside MD-08 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Agency for International Development and Maryland 8th District to inspect parent tables. 64 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $1,693,792,252.58 cash already paid in Maryland 8th District (MD-08)?
- 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 $1,693,792,252.58 as checks already cleared in Maryland 8th District (MD-08) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 64 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Where is the live USAID–MD-08 table?
- Maryland 8th District is the district parent and Agency for International Development is the agency parent. Maryland federal spending covers Maryland without the district×agency intersection as the headline. All spending ties lists other pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,693,792,252.58. Place of performance is MD-08. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.