Department of Homeland Security obligations in California

DHS, not DOT or HUD, on the California tag

This relationship page isolates awarding agency 070 and place-of-performance CA. $34,056,334,738.25 is the DHS obligation sum. 4,171 is the DHS award count. Department of Transportation in California and Department of Housing and Urban Development in California are other codes with other totals. They are not subsets of $34,056,334,738.25.

About $8.17 million per award follows from a thin-to-mid row count. Component names — Coast Guard, FEMA, CBP, and others — are not in the facts, so they are not assigned shares.

The temptation is to narrate $34,056,334,738.25 as money delivered to residents, then to narrate 4,171 as people served. Neither translation is in the fields. Obligations are commitments. Award count is records. The overlay, not the average, is the next step for anyone who needs rows.

Agency 070 without California

The Department of Homeland Security hub drops the CA filter and will not equal $34,056,334,738.25. The California hub drops 070 and includes 069, 086, and every other awarding agency tagged to CA. Overlay /states/ca/agencies/070/ is the both-keys table for 4,171 awards.

The architecture is simple. One hub is the agency without geography. One hub is the geography without this agency. One overlay is both. $34,056,334,738.25 and 4,171 belong to the overlay. The hubs answer different questions.

California is not the West Coast

Place of performance CA excludes Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii. DHS awards coded to those states are outside $34,056,334,738.25. Place of performance is not a border-sector map and not a list of ports — those names are not in the facts.

The California federal spending hub shows 070 next to 069 and 086. Table neighbors are not a combined security-and-infrastructure score.

Geography here is the place-of-performance state on the award, not a metro name, not a commuting zone, and not a list of neighboring states. $34,056,334,738.25 does not grow because a region “feels” connected. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

What 4,171 records can hide

A small number of large instruments can dominate $34,056,334,738.25. Outlays are unpublished. No year is in the facts. Award count 4,171 is not unique vendors.

Treating the total as “border spending” or “disaster spending” would invent a program split the packet does not contain.

Causation leftover

DHS obligations in California do not measure security outcomes and do not show that campaign contributions funded awards. See Department of Homeland Security in California, California federal spending, Department of Homeland Security, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

California’s DHS pair is $34,056,334,738.25 on 4,171 awards. DOT and HUD overlays in California are other awarding-agency codes.

Department of Homeland Security in California is the filtered table. California federal spending drops the agency key. Department of Homeland Security drops the state key. All spending ties is the rest of the index. Attach $34,056,334,738.25 to both keys whenever it is quoted. 4,171 is records, not people.

Commitments are not disbursements. This harvest has no outlay column and no year column, so $34,056,334,738.25 is not “spent this year.” Place of performance is not a resident-benefit census. Neighboring states are other codes. FEC filings are another system.

If the overlay later disagrees with this snapshot, trust the live table. Do not add this join to other agency overlays on the same state hub. Do not treat the per-award average as a forecast. The pair is $34,056,334,738.25 on 4,171 awards.

Snapshot language matters. $34,056,334,738.25 and 4,171 are the harvest used to write this file. USAspending aggregates can be rebuilt. If a later overlay disagrees, the live table is the operational source and this prose is historical relative to that packet. That is not a reason to ignore the join; it is a reason not to freeze $34,056,334,738.25 as a permanent law of the state. The keys — awarding agency and place-of-performance state — remain the definition of the page even if the dollars move.

State lines in USAspending are codes, not culture. Informal regions do not add into $34,056,334,738.25. A vendor headquartered elsewhere can still appear if performance is tagged here; a local vendor can vanish from 4,171 if performance is tagged elsewhere. Those coding facts are why this page will not narrate $34,056,334,738.25 as “the federal government chose this state” in a causal sense. It will narrate $34,056,334,738.25 as the obligation sum inside a two-field filter, with 4,171 records, on Department of Homeland Security in California, with parents at California federal spending and Department of Homeland Security.

Questions

How much has DHS obligated in California?

USAspending records $34,056,334,738.25 in obligations for agency 070 with California place of performance, on 4,171 awards. That is the DHS–California join only. The pair is awarding agency 070 (Department of Homeland Security) and place-of-performance California. It is not Department of Homeland Security nationwide and not California from every awarding agency.

Does this include DOT or HUD in California?

No. Those joins use agencies 069 and 086. This page is Department of Homeland Security 070: $34,056,334,738.25 on 4,171 awards. Only place-of-performance California plus awarding agency 070 (Department of Homeland Security) enter $34,056,334,738.25. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

What is the average award?

About $8.17 million ($34,056,334,738.25 ÷ 4,171). The average mixes award types and is not a typical grant or contract. That ratio uses only $34,056,334,738.25 and 4,171 from the packet. A mean hides mix: a few large instruments can sit beside many smaller ones.

Is this border or disaster spending?

The facts are agency 070 and place-of-performance CA. They do not split components or mission areas. The $34,056,334,738.25 total is the whole join. The facts are agency 070 and place-of-performance California totaling $34,056,334,738.25 on 4,171 awards. Program names, sites, and mission splits are not in this aggregate and are not assigned shares of $34,056,334,738.25.