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Department of Justice obligations in Florida 23rd District (FL-23)

Place-of-performance FL-23 crossed with Department of Justice (agency 015) yields $508,805,930.87 in USAspending.gov obligations on 885 awards. Eight hundred eighty-five Justice-coded awards cover about twenty-four percent of FL-23's district obligation total — a large Department of Justice column on a relatively small district denominator. That pair is Department of Justice and Florida 23rd District (FL-23) — not Florida's entire federal inflow, not Department of Justice nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 24.1% of this district's published obligation total ($2,107,482,733.09). Implied average obligation is about $574,921.96 ($508,805,930.87 ÷ 885). Correlation is not causation.

Key figures

  • Justice in Florida 23rd District (FL-23): $508,805,930.87 across 885 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $574,921.96 per record; district share 24.1% of $2,107,482,733.09.
  • Agency 015 × FL-23 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote Florida 23rd District and Department of Justice if live tables moved.
  • Florida federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $508,805,930.87.

The Florida 23rd District (FL-23) filter on Justice

Awarding agency 015 and congressional district FL-23 meet here. $508,805,930.87 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 Florida 23rd District (FL-23), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. 885 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $508,805,930.87 by 885 yields about $574,921.96 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 885 awards is a moderately thick Justice file. The high share reflects both the Justice dollars and a district total near two billion dollars, not a ranking of Florida districts. Do not treat FL-23's 015 cell as a synonym for every Justice account nationwide. Open Florida 23rd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Justice for agency 015 without a FL-23 filter, Florida federal spending for every awarding agency in the Florida extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $508,805,930.87.

The Department of Justice awarding-agency rollup

USAspending labels awarding agency 015 as Department of Justice. That code produced $508,805,930.87 when crossed with Florida 23rd District (FL-23) place of performance. The agency-wide 015 hub does not require FL-23 geography. The district hub does not require Justice. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 885 awards. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Florida 23rd District (FL-23) did not cause $508,805,930.87 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 015 × FL-23 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 FL-23 stamp

Florida 23rd District (FL-23) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list FL-23 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Florida districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 015. Florida 23rd District (FL-23) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Florida. Other Florida districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 015. Florida 23rd District (FL-23) is not other Florida districts that host GSA rather than Justice. Agency 047 is not agency 015.

Florida federal spending shows how agency 015 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $508,805,930.87 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Florida 23rd District (FL-23) 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 $2,107,482,733.09; $508,805,930.87 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. $508,805,930.87 is that kind of sum for Department of Justice inside FL-23 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 $508,805,930.87 as given.

Florida's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 885-row Justice cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 885 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 ($574,921.96) is a concentration statistic, not a typical FL-23 Justice payment.

Citing $508,805,930.87 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $508,805,930.87 on 885 awards coded to Florida 23rd District (FL-23). Name Department of Justice and Florida 23rd District (FL-23) together. Keep the obligation word. If Florida 23rd 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. 24.1% of $2,107,482,733.09 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Row count versus dollar concentration

885 awards is a moderately thick Justice file. The high share reflects both the Justice dollars and a district total near two billion dollars, not a ranking of Florida districts. Another Justice cell can show a similar dollar magnitude against a much larger district book, so its share is tiny. Same agency, different geography and denominator. 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 $574,921.96) and the district share (24.1% of $2,107,482,733.09) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Florida 23rd District and Department of Justice if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much Justice spending is coded to Florida 23rd District (FL-23)?
USAspending.gov lists $508,805,930.87 in Department of Justice obligations across 885 awards with place of performance in Florida 23rd District (FL-23). Agency 015 × FL-23 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Florida's complete federal ledger. The cell is 24.1% of the district's published total ($2,107,482,733.09). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $574,921.96, a ratio of those two facts only.
Does $508,805,930.87 include every Justice program in FL-23?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. $508,805,930.87 is the combined obligation sum for agency 015 inside FL-23 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Justice and Florida 23rd District to inspect parent tables. 885 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $508,805,930.87 cash already paid in Florida 23rd District (FL-23)?
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 $508,805,930.87 as checks already cleared in Florida 23rd District (FL-23) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 885 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
Why is the implied average $574,921.96 not a typical award?
The average is $508,805,930.87 divided by 885 awards, about $574,921.96. 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.