Department of Justice obligations in Texas 28th District (TX-28)
$687,175,696.60 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum for awarding agency 015 (Department of Justice) inside Texas 28th District (TX-28), on 59 award records. Fifty-nine Justice-coded awards cover about one-eighth of TX-28's district obligation total, a thin-to-moderate file with a high implied mean. That pair is Department of Justice and Texas 28th District (TX-28) — not Texas's entire federal inflow, not Department of Justice nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 12.5% of this district's published obligation total ($5,486,841,268.67). Implied average obligation is about $11,647,045.71 ($687,175,696.60 ÷ 59). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Justice in Texas 28th District (TX-28): $687,175,696.60 across 59 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $11,647,045.71 per record; district share 12.5% of $5,486,841,268.67.
- Agency 015 × TX-28 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Texas 28th District and Department of Justice if live tables moved.
- Texas federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $687,175,696.60.
Department of Justice and Texas 28th District (TX-28) as a USAspending pair
Awarding agency 015 and congressional district TX-28 meet here. $687,175,696.60 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 Texas 28th District (TX-28), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. 59 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $687,175,696.60 by 59 yields about $11,647,045.71 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 59 awards against a six-hundred-eighty-seven-million-dollar Justice cell is a compact file. Treat the count as action records, not unique recipients. Do not treat TX-28's 015 cell as a synonym for every Justice account nationwide. Open Texas 28th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Justice for agency 015 without a TX-28 filter, Texas federal spending for every awarding agency in the Texas extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $687,175,696.60.
How USAspending labels Department of Justice
USAspending labels awarding agency 015 as Department of Justice. That code produced $687,175,696.60 when crossed with Texas 28th District (TX-28) place of performance. The agency-wide 015 hub does not require TX-28 geography. The district hub does not require Justice. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 59 awards. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Texas 28th District (TX-28) did not cause $687,175,696.60 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 015 × TX-28 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.
Geography is TX-28, not a facility map
Texas 28th District (TX-28) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list TX-28 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Texas districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 015. Texas 28th District (TX-28) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Texas. Other Texas districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 015. Texas 28th District (TX-28) is a place-of-performance code, not a statement that every obligated dollar stayed inside one county cluster. Other Texas districts are separate joins.
Texas federal spending shows how agency 015 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $687,175,696.60 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Texas 28th District (TX-28) 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 $5,486,841,268.67; $687,175,696.60 is the Justice slice of that denominator.
Commitment totals versus cash paid
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $687,175,696.60 is that kind of sum for Department of Justice inside TX-28 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 $687,175,696.60 as given.
Keeping both sides of the 015 × TX-28 pair
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $687,175,696.60 on 59 awards coded to Texas 28th District (TX-28). Name Department of Justice and Texas 28th District (TX-28) together. Keep the obligation word. If Texas 28th 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. 12.5% of $5,486,841,268.67 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Share, mean, and what they are not
59 awards against a six-hundred-eighty-seven-million-dollar Justice cell is a compact file. Treat the count as action records, not unique recipients. Other Texas districts can host Department of Justice cells on their own ties. Same awarding-agency code 015 does not merge those stamps into TX-28. 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 $11,647,045.71) and the district share (12.5% of $5,486,841,268.67) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Texas 28th District and Department of Justice if the live tables moved.
Do not rank Texas 28th District (TX-28) as more Justice-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 015 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 015 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $687,175,696.60 and 59 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much Justice spending is coded to Texas 28th District (TX-28)?
- USAspending.gov lists $687,175,696.60 in Department of Justice obligations across 59 awards with place of performance in Texas 28th District (TX-28). Agency 015 × TX-28 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Texas's complete federal ledger. The cell is 12.5% of the district's published total ($5,486,841,268.67). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $11,647,045.71, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $687,175,696.60 include every Justice program in TX-28?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. $687,175,696.60 is the combined obligation sum for agency 015 inside TX-28 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Justice and Texas 28th District to inspect parent tables. 59 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $687,175,696.60 cash already paid in Texas 28th District (TX-28)?
- 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 $687,175,696.60 as checks already cleared in Texas 28th District (TX-28) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 59 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- How does this Justice cell relate to Texas statewide spending?
- Texas federal spending is the Texas statewide extract across awarding agencies. $687,175,696.60 is the Department of Justice amount inside Texas 28th District (TX-28) only, not the statewide Justice total. Adding Texas federal spending to $687,175,696.60 double-counts. Agency 015 nationwide lives on Department of Justice. This join is 015 × TX-28.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.