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Department of Justice obligations in California 6th District (CA-06)

Place-of-performance CA-06 crossed with Department of Justice (agency 015) yields $354,877,953.11 in USAspending.gov obligations on 86 awards. Eighty-six Justice-coded awards equal about one percent of CA-06's district obligation total. Other California districts can host Agriculture or GSA; those cells are different joins. That pair is Department of Justice and California 6th District (CA-06) — not California's entire federal inflow, not Department of Justice nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 1.4% of this district's published obligation total ($25,979,743,385.07). Implied average obligation is about $4,126,487.83 ($354,877,953.11 ÷ 86). Correlation is not causation.

Key figures

  • Justice in California 6th District (CA-06): $354,877,953.11 across 86 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $4,126,487.83 per record; district share 1.4% of $25,979,743,385.07.
  • Agency 015 × CA-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote California 6th District and Department of Justice if live tables moved.
  • California federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $354,877,953.11.

The California 6th District (CA-06) filter on Justice

Awarding agency 015 and congressional district CA-06 meet here. $354,877,953.11 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Justice's nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to California 6th District (CA-06), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. 86 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a case docket, a prison census, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $354,877,953.11 by 86 yields about $4,126,487.83 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 86 awards is a compact Justice file against a district total near twenty-six billion dollars. Share is small because the denominator is large. Do not treat CA-06's 015 cell as a synonym for every Justice account nationwide. Open California 6th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Justice for agency 015 without a CA-06 filter, California federal spending for every awarding agency in the California extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $354,877,953.11.

The Department of Justice awarding-agency rollup

USAspending labels awarding agency 015 as Department of Justice. That code produced $354,877,953.11 when crossed with California 6th District (CA-06) place of performance. The agency-wide 015 hub does not require CA-06 geography. The district hub does not require Justice. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 86 awards. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: California 6th District (CA-06) did not cause $354,877,953.11 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 015 × CA-06 only. This cell is not a case docket, a prison census, 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.

Reading the CA-06 stamp

California 6th District (CA-06) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CA-06 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other California districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 015. California 6th District (CA-06) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside California. Other California districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 015. California 6th District (CA-06) is a numbered USAspending geography inside California. Other California districts can use Agriculture or GSA, not Justice.

California federal spending shows how agency 015 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $354,877,953.11 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split California 6th District (CA-06) 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 Justice. The district-wide obligation total published here is $25,979,743,385.07; $354,877,953.11 is the Justice slice of that denominator.

USAspending obligations on this pair

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $354,877,953.11 is that kind of sum for Department of Justice inside CA-06 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 $354,877,953.11 as given.

California's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 86-row Justice cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 86 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 ($4,126,487.83) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CA-06 Justice payment.

Citing $354,877,953.11 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $354,877,953.11 on 86 awards coded to California 6th District (CA-06). Name Department of Justice and California 6th District (CA-06) together. Keep the obligation word. If California 6th District or Department of Justice has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a case docket, a prison census, or a named-grantee file. 1.4% of $25,979,743,385.07 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Row count versus dollar concentration

86 awards is a compact Justice file against a district total near twenty-six billion dollars. Share is small because the denominator is large. Another Justice cell can have a similar row count and a much higher share. Denominator differences are not a performance score. 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 $4,126,487.83) and the district share (1.4% of $25,979,743,385.07) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer California 6th District and Department of Justice if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much Justice spending is coded to California 6th District (CA-06)?
USAspending.gov lists $354,877,953.11 in Department of Justice obligations across 86 awards with place of performance in California 6th District (CA-06). Agency 015 × CA-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not California's complete federal ledger. The cell is 1.4% of the district's published total ($25,979,743,385.07). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $4,126,487.83, a ratio of those two facts only.
Does $354,877,953.11 include every Justice program in CA-06?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. $354,877,953.11 is the combined obligation sum for agency 015 inside CA-06 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Justice and California 6th District to inspect parent tables. 86 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $354,877,953.11 cash already paid in California 6th District (CA-06)?
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 $354,877,953.11 as checks already cleared in California 6th District (CA-06) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 86 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
Why is the implied average $4,126,487.83 not a typical award?
The average is $354,877,953.11 divided by 86 awards, about $4,126,487.83. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.