Department of Health and Human Services in Maryland 8th District (MD-08)
Maryland 8th District (MD-08) place-of-performance awards tagged to Department of Health and Human Services (agency 075) sum to $20,493,628,030.63 on 10,414 award records. The district's all-agency total in this packet is $61,236,689,187.98. Maryland 8th District (MD-08) is a Health and Human Services (075) join with a thick award-record file. Maryland 5th District in this slice is Defense (097). Different agencies and different districts. Do not merge MD-08 HHS with MD-05 Defense. 10,414 awards against $20,493,628,030.63 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $1.97 million is not a typical invoice. Source: USAspending.gov. Not the MD-05 Defense cell, a named institute roster, or Maryland statewide HHS.
Key figures
- Department of Health and Human Services in Maryland 8th District (MD-08): $20,493,628,030.63 across 10,414 USAspending awards (agency 075).
- That cell is 33.5% of the district's $61,236,689,187.98 all-agency total.
- Implied mean about $1.97 million per record, not a typical award size.
- Agency 075 × MD-08 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a vendor list.
- FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell; source is USAspending.gov.
What $20,493,628,030.63 measures in MD-08
$20,493,628,030.63 is not a program pie, not a city budget, and not cash already paid in Maryland. It is the obligation sum USAspending.gov attaches to Department of Health and Human Services inside Maryland 8th District (MD-08) coding. 10,414 awards against $20,493,628,030.63 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $1.97 million is not a typical invoice.
Institute, campus, and Bethesda-area names are unpublished. Unique recipients are unpublished. A high award-record count is modifications and repeat instruments as much as it is unique vendors — the packet does not say which. Statewide Maryland federal spending is the mixed parent. Keep both sides in every citation: Department of Health and Human Services (agency 075) and Maryland 8th District (MD-08). Correlation with local news is not causation.
Toptier 075 is not every federal dollar in MD-08
Other toptiers that award in Maryland are visible on Maryland federal spending and on the district hub. They are not this cell. $20,493,628,030.63 is Department of Health and Human Services only. 10,414 is the Department of Health and Human Services×MD-08 action count only.
Maryland 8th District (MD-08) is a Health and Human Services (075) join with a thick award-record file. Maryland 5th District in this slice is Defense (097). Different agencies and different districts. Do not merge MD-08 HHS with MD-05 Defense. Mixing those other toptiers into $20,493,628,030.63 would invent a combined Maryland 8th District (MD-08) total the packet already publishes separately as $61,236,689,187.98.
How Maryland Maryland 8th District is stored
USAspending stores MD-08 as the congressional district of place of performance. Maryland's other districts, if they appear as other ties, are other rows. Maryland federal spending is the state mix without a district filter and without an Department of Health and Human Services filter.
Institute, campus, and Bethesda-area names are unpublished. Unique recipients are unpublished. A high award-record count is modifications and repeat instruments as much as it is unique vendors — the packet does not say which. Statewide Maryland federal spending is the mixed parent. Do not rank Maryland 8th District (MD-08) against other districts as a winner or loser. The join describes overlap.
What an obligation sum is not
$20,493,628,030.63 is not payroll already issued, not a grant already drawn, and not an invoice already paid. It is an obligation aggregate. 10,414 is not unique vendors. 33.5% is not a performance score.
Limits of the Maryland 8th District (MD-08) × Department of Health and Human Services cell
Missing from this packet: outlays, NAICS, CFDA, recipient names, and fiscal year. Those omissions are why the page is a join brief rather than an award reprint. The md-05 defense cell, a named institute roster, or maryland statewide hhs.
Readers who need line items open the district overlay or USAspending.gov. This JSON file reports the harvested pair only.
Indexes: Maryland and All spending ties
Maryland federal spending is the Maryland directory without this Department of Health and Human Services filter. All spending ties is the two-key index. Neither directory is a dollar addend. Maryland 8th District (MD-08) and Department of Health and Human Services are the two parents of this cell.
Keep the district identifier MD-08 next to the district name whenever the cell is quoted. Source remains USAspending.gov.
Read the four internal links as parents, not as extra dollars. Maryland 8th District is the district overlay. Department of Health and Human Services is the agency overlay. Maryland federal spending is the state mix. All spending ties is the two-key index. None of those pages should be added into $20,493,628,030.63. The harvested cell is already the overlap.
Questions
- How much Department of Health and Human Services spending is coded to Maryland 8th District (MD-08)?
- USAspending.gov lists $20,493,628,030.63 in Department of Health and Human Services obligations across 10,414 Maryland 8th District (MD-08)-coded awards (agency 075). That cell is 33.5% of the district's $61,236,689,187.98 all-agency total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Is $20,493,628,030.63 all federal spending in MD-08?
- No. $61,236,689,187.98 is Maryland 8th District (MD-08)'s all-agency obligation total in this packet. Department of Health and Human Services is 33.5% of that parent. Other awarding agencies remain on the district hub. Do not add the district parent into this Department of Health and Human Services cell.
- Do 10,414 awards mean 10,414 unique contractors in MD-08?
- No. 10,414 is an award-record count for Department of Health and Human Services in Maryland 8th District (MD-08), not unique vendors. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. This packet names no contractors or award recipients. Implied mean about $1.97 million is two facts divided.
- Did FEC donations fund this Department of Health and Human Services total in MD-08?
- No. $20,493,628,030.63 is a USAspending.gov obligation aggregate. FEC contribution tables are a different dataset and do not fund these awards. Outlays are unpublished. Cite Department of Health and Human Services and Maryland 8th District (MD-08) together as a place-of-performance join.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.