Department of State obligations in Virginia 8th District (VA-08)

What the State Dept.–VA-08 join is

Awarding agency 019 and congressional district VA-08 meet here. $6,314,993,131.99 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of State’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Virginia 8th District (VA-08), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split State bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,400 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a diplomatic-post census, a passport total, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $6,314,993,131.99 by 1,400 yields about $4,510,709.38 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,400 awards is a thick State file. GSA, HHS, and DHS also use VA-08 on other pages. This join is agency 019 only. Do not treat VA-08’s 019 cell as a synonym for every State Dept. account nationwide. Open Virginia 8th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of State for agency 019 without the VA-08 filter, Virginia federal spending for every awarding agency in the Virginia extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $6,314,993,131.99.

Awarding agency 019 as the State Dept. side

USAspending labels awarding agency 019 as Department of State. That code produced $6,314,993,131.99 when crossed with Virginia 8th District (VA-08) place of performance. The agency-wide 019 hub does not require VA-08 geography. The district hub does not require State Dept.. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,400 awards. The packet does not split State bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Virginia 8th District (VA-08) did not “cause” $6,314,993,131.99 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 019 × VA-08 only. It is not a diplomatic-post census, a passport total, or a named-contractor 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.

Virginia 8th District (VA-08) as place of performance

Virginia 8th District (VA-08) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list VA-08 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Virginia districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 019. Virginia 8th District (VA-08) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Virginia. Other Virginia districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 019. Virginia 8th District (VA-08) is not Virginia 11th District. Same awarding-agency code 019, different place-of-performance stamp, different dollar total and row count.

Virginia federal spending shows how agency 019 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $6,314,993,131.99 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Virginia 8th District (VA-08) 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 State. The district-wide obligation total published here is $96,192,518,081.34; $6,314,993,131.99 is the State Dept. slice of that denominator.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $6,314,993,131.99 is that kind of sum for Department of State inside VA-08 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 $6,314,993,131.99 as given.

Virginia’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,400-row State Dept. cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,400 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 ($4,510,709.38) is a concentration statistic, not a typical VA-08 State Dept. payment.

How to cite State Dept. in VA-08

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of State (agency 019) obligated $6,314,993,131.99 on 1,400 awards coded to Virginia 8th District (VA-08). Name Department of State and Virginia 8th District (VA-08) together. Keep the obligation word. If Virginia 8th District or Department of State has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a diplomatic-post census, a passport total, or a named-contractor file. 6.6% of $96,192,518,081.34 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of State, Virginia 8th District (VA-08), $6,314,993,131.99, and 1,400 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of State is the 019 parent without a VA-08 filter. Virginia federal spending is the Virginia parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with State Dept. does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading a thick State Dept. file in VA-08

1,400 awards is a thick State file. GSA, HHS, and DHS also use VA-08 on other pages. This join is agency 019 only. 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 $4,510,709.38) and the district share (6.6% of $96,192,518,081.34) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Virginia 8th District and Department of State if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Virginia 8th District (VA-08) as more State Dept.-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 019 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 019 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $6,314,993,131.99 and 1,400 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much State Dept. spending is coded to Virginia 8th District (VA-08)?

USAspending.gov lists $6,314,993,131.99 in Department of State obligations across 1,400 awards with place of performance in Virginia 8th District (VA-08). Agency 019 × VA-08 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Virginia’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 6.6% of the district’s published total ($96,192,518,081.34). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $4,510,709.38, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $6,314,993,131.99 include every State Dept. program in VA-08?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split State bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. $6,314,993,131.99 is the combined obligation sum for agency 019 inside VA-08 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of State and Virginia 8th District to inspect parent tables. 1,400 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $6,314,993,131.99 cash already paid in Virginia 8th District (VA-08)?

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 $6,314,993,131.99 as checks already cleared in Virginia 8th District (VA-08) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,400 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Where is the live State Dept.–VA-08 table?

Virginia 8th District is the district parent and Department of State is the agency parent. Virginia federal spending covers Virginia without the district×agency intersection as the headline. All spending ties lists other pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $6,314,993,131.99. Place of performance is VA-08. Obligations are not outlays.