Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in Texas

Twenty-one awards carrying seventeen billion

The join keeps USAspending rows where the CFDA is CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS and the geography is Texas (TX). Those rows add to $17,491,232,671.69 and number 21. Twenty-one is not 21 Texas counties and not 21 recovery projects. State and metropolitan recipients often receive a small number of large assistance awards that later feed subawards the prime file does not explode.

Divide $17,491,232,671.69 by 21 and the implied mean is about $833,868,200 per award. That average describes vehicle size in the extract, not a typical municipal draw. The packet has no recipient names, no project list, and no split between the state government and local governments. This page will not invent those names.

Texas federal spending includes every CFDA tagged to TX. CFDA 21.027 includes every state in the national program file. Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in Texas is the cell where those two filters meet. All spending ties is the index of other cells.

Readers who want recipient names should open the overlay table. The packet facts stop at $17,491,232,671.69 and 21. City lists, eligible-use categories, and clawbacks would be a different extract.

Texas is large enough that one SLFRF cell can dwarf many other states’ 21.027 rows. That size comparison is two obligation joins, not a ranking of pandemic harm. Population and unemployment are not facts here.

A pandemic assistance catalog number, not a public-health score

CFDA 21.027 is the Catalog label for the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds created in pandemic relief law. The label does not score Texas’s COVID outcomes, hospital capacity, or tax policy. $17,491,232,671.69 is an obligation sum on awards with that label and a Texas place-of-performance tag.

Place-of-performance for a fiscal-recovery award often follows the recipient government’s address. A dollar obligated under a Texas tag can finance work in a city, a county, or a statewide account. The reverse is also possible: Texas-located work funded under another state’s prime award would not sit in this 21-row cell.

Other Treasury or FEMA CFDA numbers that mention coronavirus are not 21.027. Mixing them into $17,491,232,671.69 without a new extract changes the join.

Treasury’s SLFRF statute allowed a wide eligible-use list. This page does not score how Texas used the money. Use is an outlay and reporting question. The join only says Catalog 21.027 and the TX tag produced 21 awards summing to $17,491,232,671.69.

Commitment timing on a recovery vehicle

Obligations can be recorded years before the last eligible expenditure. $17,491,232,671.69 should be cited as USAspending obligations, not as money already spent in Texas shops. Outlays, period of performance, and eligible-use reports live in other systems.

The packet does not name a fiscal year. Do not attach one to $17,491,232,671.69. Quote the source as USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.

If a later USAspending refresh restates deobligations, the live overlay moves and this JSON does not. Cite the overlay when the story is current; cite this packet when the story is the harvested snapshot.

Texas statewide, not a metro allocation table

Harris County, Dallas, and the border metros share the TX tag. This packet does not split 21 awards or $17,491,232,671.69 by metro. A city-by-city SLFRF story needs a different table.

Use Texas programs to see other CFDA cells in the state, and the overlay Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in Texas for the live pair. None of those pages grades Texas’s recovery.

Border metros and inland metros share TX. A county journalist who needs a local SLFRF total must leave this page. The statewide cell is the only geography in the facts.

Join caveats

A large SLFRF cell next to a large SNAP cell in Texas does not mean recovery funds bought groceries. Different Catalog numbers, different statutes. Correlation is not causation.

Do not treat 21 awards as 21 decisions by a legislature. USAspending award actions are the unit. Do not compute per-capita recovery spending; population is not in this packet.

How this join sits among Texas program pages

Texas SNAP in this slice is four awards on 10.551. Texas SLFRF is 21 awards on 21.027. Similar billions, different grains, different statutes. Do not add the two dollar totals and call the sum Texas’s ‘relief.’

Follow Coronavirus State And Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in Texas for the live pair, Texas programs for sibling CFDA cells, and All spending ties for other joins. None of those pages assigns a recovery grade.

Questions

How much SLFRF money is obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov shows $17,491,232,671.69 across 21 awards for Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (CFDA 21.027) tagged to Texas. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a project roster.

Why are there only 21 awards for such a large total?

Fiscal-recovery dollars often move as a few large assistance awards to governments, which then make subawards. This packet counts 21 prime-file actions, not every local project. Unique vendors and subawards are unpublished here.

Does this include all federal COVID funding in Texas?

No. Only CFDA 21.027 with a Texas place-of-performance tag is in $17,491,232,671.69. Other pandemic Catalog numbers sit on other program pages.

Where do I read the live Texas SLFRF table?

Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in Texas is the overlay. See also Texas federal spending, Texas programs, CFDA 21.027, and All spending ties.