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Congressional Directives federal obligations in FY2024

$3,767,774,338.09 in USAspending.gov obligations sit on Congressional Directives (CFDA 93.493) in fiscal year 2024, across 2,379 awards. CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTIVES is CFDA 93.493. FY2024 accounts for nearly all of this extract’s 93.493 dollars. This page is that program–year join, not an earmark-project catalog, a named-grantee roster, or a member-request ledger. Obligations are not outlays.

Key figures

  • Congressional Directives in FY2024: $3,767,774,338.09 in USAspending obligations (CFDA 93.493).
  • FY2024 obligations of $3,767,774,338.09 sit below the CFDA program total of $3,853,699,675.64.
  • The FY2024 table lists 2,379 awards, not a census of earmarked projects.
  • The join is Congressional Directives × FY2024, not a project ranking or a named earmark recipient list.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays; FEC donations do not fund this total.

Congressional Directives overlapping FY2024 — CFDA 93.493

The pair is Congressional Directives × FY2024. $3,767,774,338.09 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 93.493 and fiscal year 2024 on the yearlyTrend table. The FY2024 obligation $3,767,774,338.09 is 97.8% of the CFDA program total of $3,853,699,675.64. This page does not invent the other fiscal-year rows that sit outside FY2024 on Congressional Directives. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that FY2024 caused Congressional Directives activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a project ranking or a named earmark recipient list.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTIVES. The year on the other side is federal fiscal year 2024. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or an awarding-agency code — this packet publishes no awarding agency and no named recipients. Cite $3,767,774,338.09 as obligations on the Congressional Directives–FY2024 pair. Two thousand three hundred seventy-nine FY2024 awards against a cell that is almost the program-wide total is a concentrated directives year, not a project encyclopedia.

CFDA 93.493 as the Congressional Directives side

CFDA 93.493 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Congressional Directives. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $3,853,699,675.64 across 2,528 awards. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the FY2024 cell unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $3,853,699,675.64 as cash Treasury already sent. Project titles, sponsor names, and earmark line items are unpublished on this packet.

Open CFDA 93.493 at /programs/93.493/ for the program hub. That page is not this join: it can include other fiscal years if the extract lists them, and it is still obligations rather than outlays. This ties page stays on CFDA 93.493 in FY2024 only.

FY2024 as the Congressional Directives yearlyTrend cell

Federal fiscal year 2024 is the time key on this yearlyTrend row. The year hub FY2024 federal spending at /fiscal-years/2024/ rolls up every program that year in the index, not only Congressional Directives. Reading $3,767,774,338.09 as all FY2024 federal obligations would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one fiscal year, not a Budget Appendix score.

2,379 FY2024 awards as a CFDA table, not a project census

The extract lists 2,379 awards on the Congressional Directives × FY2024 table. That is an award-record count for this yearlyTrend cell, not a census of earmarked projects. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $3,767,774,338.09 by 2,379 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable. The program-wide award count is 2,528, a different denominator.

Project rankings this Congressional Directives–FY2024 join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $3,767,774,338.09 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on Congressional Directives in FY2024 over-reads the field. The join cannot say that Congressional Directives expanded in FY2024 because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $3,767,774,338.09 labeled as Congressional Directives obligations in fiscal year 2024.

Budget justifications, program evaluations, and press releases answer other questions. They are not the source of this cell. If a chart mixes a different CFDA with FY2024 or a different fiscal year with Congressional Directives, the chart has left this join. Project titles, sponsor names, and earmark line items are unpublished on this packet.

Hubs for CFDA 93.493 × FY2024

Open /programs/93.493/ for CFDA 93.493, /fiscal-years/2024/ for FY2024 federal spending, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a project ranking or a named earmark recipient list, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Congressional Directives and FY2024, $3,767,774,338.09, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did Congressional Directives obligate in FY2024?
USAspending.gov records $3,767,774,338.09 in Congressional Directives obligations for fiscal year 2024 (CFDA 93.493) across 2,379 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not the program-wide $3,853,699,675.64.
Is Congressional Directives FY2024 cash already drawn by grantees?
No. $3,767,774,338.09 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Congressional Directives in FY2024. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the fiscal year in the citation.
Does 2,379 awards mean 2,379 earmarked projects in FY2024?
No. 2,379 is an award-record count for the FY2024 cell, not a census of earmarked projects. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. The program-wide count is 2,528. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the fiscal year in the citation.
Which pages parent Congressional Directives and FY2024?
/programs/93.493/ is the program parent. /fiscal-years/2024/ is the FY2024 parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Congressional Directives × FY2024 at $3,767,774,338.09. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

USAspending.gov CFDA program yearlyTrend by fiscal year. Obligations are not outlays.