Delaware federal obligations next to FEC candidate receipts

DE is a postal code, not a credit-card PAC wire

SpendingVault indexes USAspending.gov obligations for Delaware at $42,013,280,289 across 28,656 awards. LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov candidate receipts at $7.2 million across 168 committees. The join key is DE. Corporate-headquarters folklore may bring a reader here. Those stories are not packet dollars and they do not connect a contribution to an award ID.

The scale gap is the first honest observation: $7.2 million is a receipt total; $42,013,280,289 is an obligation total. Adding them invents a Delaware federal-money headline no agency published.

Open Delaware federal spending for the award table, Delaware FEC totals for the candidate table, and All spending ties for sibling joins. None converts donations into spending.

Award obligations without a campaign overlay

$42,013,280,289 covers award obligations USAspending attributes to Delaware. 28,656 is an action count, not unique recipients. Average obligation per action is about $1,466,125 ($42,013,280,289 ÷ 28,656), which hides the mix of instruments in the file. Health, defense, and civilian agencies can all appear without appearing on a campaign report.

Recipient and agency names live on Delaware federal spending. They do not live inside the FEC committees. Independent expenditures that mention a Delaware candidate can be paid from elsewhere and sit in neither total. This packet publishes obligations, not outlays.

Democratic-heavy receipts on 168 committees

Democratic committees reported $7.0 million (97.3% of $7.2 million). Republican committees reported $186,814 (2.6%). Other filers reported $7,037 (0.1%). 168 federal candidate committees tagged to Delaware sit behind those lines. 97.3% is a committee-label share, not a vendor share.

USAspending award rows in this packet have no Democratic flag. Copying that percentage onto the obligation total would assign party to grantees this file does not party-code. State races file with Delaware’s state system, outside the FEC extract.

Wilmington versus the rest of Delaware is not a packet split

This extract does not divide $42,013,280,289 or $7.2 million between northern Delaware and the rest of the state. 28,656 awards and 168 committees are statewide. A metro cut would be a different file.

Do not divide $42,013,280,289 by $7.2 million and call the result a return on donations. Do not divide 28,656 by 168. Candidate committees are not award recipients in this join. Correlation is not causation.

Delaware citation block

USAspending.gov: $42,013,280,289; 28,656 awards. FEC.gov: $7.2 million; 168 committees; Democratic $7.0 million; Republican $186,814; other $7,037. Two sentences. No plus sign. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

168 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 28,656 is an action count, not unique vendors. State-office campaigns file under Delaware law and sit outside the FEC extract. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside the obligation total.

What a later Delaware ingest would change

USAspending restatements can move $42,013,280,289 and 28,656. FEC amendments can move $7.2 million and the party lines. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Delaware federal spending and Delaware FEC totals are the live hubs.

Do not rank Delaware as more influential because receipts sit beside obligations. Influence is not a field in this packet. All spending ties keeps Delaware in a series of geographic joins without publishing a blended total. Headquarters folklore remains outside both extracts unless it appears as a recipient row.

Keep Delaware’s small filing roster labeled as a committee count, not a ballot census. Headquarters folklore is not packet NAICS. A researcher who wants both pictures keeps two tabs and does not add the totals. Wilmington is not a third ledger in this extract. Amended candidate reports move receipts; award restatements move obligations. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Do not rank Delaware as more connected because a small filing roster sits beside a statewide award extract. Influence is not a field in this packet.

Questions

Do Delaware campaign donations fund Delaware federal awards?

No. $7.2 million is FEC candidate receipts from 168 committees. $42,013,280,289 is USAspending obligations from 28,656 awards. A shared DE code is not a payment trail from donors to vendors. Original filings remain on FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

How much has the federal government obligated in Delaware?

USAspending.gov records $42,013,280,289 in obligations across 28,656 awards coded to Delaware. That is an agency-award extract, not FEC operating expenditure, and not a restatement of candidate receipts. Original filings remain on the source sites.

How Democratic is Delaware’s federal candidate fundraising?

Democratic committees reported $7.0 million, or 97.3% of $7.2 million. Republican committees reported $186,814 (2.6%). Other filers reported $7,037. Those shares describe 168 candidate committees, not award recipients. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where are Delaware’s FEC and spending hubs?

Delaware federal spending on SpendingVault holds obligations. Delaware FEC totals on LobbyVault holds candidate receipts. All spending ties lists other state joins. If a later bulk file disagrees with this snapshot, the later extract controls. Original filings remain on the source sites.