Commerce obligations in Montana 2nd District (MT-02)

What the Commerce–MT-02 join is

Awarding agency 013 and congressional district MT-02 meet here. $709,368,567.96 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Commerce’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Montana 2nd District (MT-02), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split Commerce bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. 19 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a NOAA station list, a census-office map, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $709,368,567.96 by 19 yields about $37,335,187.79 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 19 awards is a thin Commerce file, close in spirit to OK-05’s 14 and CO-01’s 25, still without named bureaus or grantees. Do not treat MT-02’s 013 cell as a synonym for every Commerce account nationwide. Open Montana 2nd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Commerce for agency 013 without a MT-02 filter, Montana federal spending for every awarding agency in the Montana extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $709,368,567.96.

Awarding agency 013 as the Commerce side

USAspending labels awarding agency 013 as Department of Commerce. That code produced $709,368,567.96 when crossed with Montana 2nd District (MT-02) place of performance. The agency-wide 013 hub does not require MT-02 geography. The district hub does not require Commerce. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 19 awards. The packet does not split Commerce bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Montana 2nd District (MT-02) did not “cause” $709,368,567.96 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 013 × MT-02 only. It is not a NOAA station list, a census-office map, 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.

Montana 2nd District (MT-02) as place of performance

Montana 2nd District (MT-02) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MT-02 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Montana districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 013. Montana 2nd District (MT-02) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Montana. Other Montana districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 013. Montana 2nd District (MT-02) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside Montana. Other Montana districts are not this join. The packet does not publish a county split.

Montana federal spending shows how agency 013 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $709,368,567.96 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Montana 2nd District (MT-02) 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 Department of Commerce. The district-wide obligation total published here is $9,996,419,057.28; $709,368,567.96 is the Commerce slice of that denominator.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $709,368,567.96 is that kind of sum for Department of Commerce inside MT-02 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 $709,368,567.96 as given.

Montana’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 19-row Commerce cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 19 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 ($37,335,187.79) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MT-02 Commerce payment.

How to cite Commerce in MT-02

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $709,368,567.96 on 19 awards coded to Montana 2nd District (MT-02). Name Department of Commerce and Montana 2nd District (MT-02) together. Keep the obligation word. If Montana 2nd District or Department of Commerce has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a NOAA station list, a census-office map, or a named-grantee file. 7.1% of $9,996,419,057.28 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Commerce, Montana 2nd District (MT-02), $709,368,567.96, and 19 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without a MT-02 filter. Montana federal spending is the Montana parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Commerce does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading a thin Commerce file in MT-02

19 awards is a thin Commerce file, close in spirit to OK-05’s 14 and CO-01’s 25, still without named bureaus or grantees. 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 $37,335,187.79) and the district share (7.1% of $9,996,419,057.28) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Montana 2nd District and Department of Commerce if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Montana 2nd District (MT-02) as more Commerce-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 013 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 013 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $709,368,567.96 and 19 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much Commerce spending is coded to Montana 2nd District (MT-02)?

USAspending.gov lists $709,368,567.96 in Department of Commerce obligations across 19 awards with place of performance in Montana 2nd District (MT-02). Agency 013 × MT-02 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Montana’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 7.1% of the district’s published total ($9,996,419,057.28). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $37,335,187.79, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $709,368,567.96 include every Commerce program in MT-02?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split Commerce bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. $709,368,567.96 is the combined obligation sum for agency 013 inside MT-02 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Commerce and Montana 2nd District to inspect parent tables. 19 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $709,368,567.96 cash already paid in Montana 2nd District (MT-02)?

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 $709,368,567.96 as checks already cleared in Montana 2nd District (MT-02) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 19 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Where is the live Commerce–MT-02 table?

Montana 2nd District is the district parent and Department of Commerce is the agency parent. Montana federal spending covers Montana 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 $709,368,567.96. Place of performance is MT-02. Obligations are not outlays.