Department of the Treasury federal obligations in Texas
The Department of the Treasury shows $22,792,830,290.34 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Texas, across 1,297 awards. Awarding-agency 020 and Texas (TX) form a thin file relative to Texas USDA’s hundreds of thousands of rows. Tax-refund folklore is not this table: most individual refunds never become USAspending awards. The dollars here are award obligations, not outlays and not IRS refund volume.
Key figures
- Treasury in Texas: $22,792,830,290.34 across 1,297 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $17.6 million per record—a thin file.
- Agency 020 × TX is not an IRS refund ledger.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
Treasury awards on a Texas tag
Department of the Treasury as awarding agency, Texas as place-of-performance: 1,297 records summing to $22,792,830,290.34. A Treasury award in Oklahoma is a different cell. An SSA award in Texas sits under agency 028, not 020.
The implied mean is about $17.6 million per award. A thin, high-mean file can reflect large fiscal vehicles rather than a mass of small tax-administration purchases. This packet does not itemize those 1,297 rows.
Department of the Treasury in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending is the all-agency state hub. All spending ties lists other pairs. One thousand two hundred ninety-seven Treasury records in Texas are a thin file next to USDA’s 428,412 Texas rows. $22,792,830,290.34 is still an award-obligation sum for agency 020, not a refund volume. Department of the Treasury in Texas should be cited with that distinction in the same paragraph.
Refunds and the award file are different series
Individual tax refunds generally do not appear as USAspending awards. $22,792,830,290.34 is not “how much Treasury sent Texas taxpayers.” It is awarding-agency 020 obligation on 1,297 award records coded to Texas.
Mint, IRS operations, fiscal-service contracts, and other Treasury instruments can share the cell. This packet does not split them. Do not treat 1,297 awards as 1,297 Texas IRS offices. Texas did not cause the cell by having many taxpayers. Taxpayer counts are not packet facts. The join is 020 × TX. Correlation is not causation. IRS campuses attach easily in ordinary speech. This packet does not name them. Assigning $22,792,830,290.34 to a named campus is a new extract. Texas federal spending still includes USDA, VA, DHS, Education, and NASA cells that are not 020.
Obligations on a short Treasury list
Large fiscal vehicles can obligate ahead of outlays. $22,792,830,290.34 can include amounts still unpaid. Citing it as cash already spent in Texas misreads the award file.
Austin’s budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with 1,297 Treasury awards leaves USAspending.gov. Texas Treasury’s 1,297 records are a thin file next to USDA Texas’s 428,412 rows. $22,792,830,290.34 is still an award-obligation sum for agency 020, not IRS refund volume. Department of the Treasury in Texas should carry that distinction in the same citation. Campus names are unpublished.
Statewide TX only
This packet does not split $22,792,830,290.34 by metro. 1,297 awards stay statewide. An IRS-campus table would be a different extract.
Department of the Treasury is the 020 hub without a Texas filter. Use it for the agency book. On a 1,297-row file, one large restatement can move the mean quickly.
Citing Treasury in Texas
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of the Treasury (020) obligated $22,792,830,290.34 on 1,297 awards coded to Texas. Name Treasury and Texas together. Keep “obligations.” State that the figure is an award rollup, not a refund total.
Prefer Department of the Treasury in Texas if the overlay moved. Do not call $22,792,830,290.34 tax refunds paid to Texans. Texas federal spending still includes USDA, VA, DHS, Education, and NASA cells that are not 020. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Prefer the overlay after ingests; 1,297 rows can move when one vehicle restates. Keep the obligation label. The implied mean near $17.6 million is a thin-file ratio.
How to cite Treasury in Texas without mixing refunds
Cite Department of the Treasury, Texas, $22,792,830,290.34, and 1,297 awards. State that the figure is an award rollup. All spending ties lists other pairs. Department of the Treasury is the 020 parent.
Do not call the total tax refunds paid to Texans. Do not treat 1,297 as unique IRS offices. Do not per-taxpayer the dollars. Those series are unpublished or out of series. Thin files move when one large vehicle restates. Prefer the overlay Department of the Treasury in Texas if this snapshot disagrees. Keep the obligation label. USAspending.gov is the source.
Questions
- How much has Treasury obligated in Texas?
- USAspending.gov lists $22,792,830,290.34 in Department of the Treasury obligations across 1,297 Texas-coded awards. Agency 020 × TX is an obligation join, not an outlay and not an IRS refund total. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of the Treasury in Texas is the live overlay for this pair. $22,792,830,290.34 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 1,297 awards.
- Does this include tax refunds paid to Texans?
- Generally no. Individual refunds are not this award series. $22,792,830,290.34 covers 1,297 USAspending award records with awarding agency 020 and a Texas tag. This packet publishes only the Department of the Treasury (agency 020) join inside Texas coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $22,792,830,290.34 and 1,297 together.
- Why so few awards compared with USDA in Texas?
- This packet counts 1,297 Treasury award actions. USDA’s Texas join is a different agency code with a different instrument mix. Do not treat the two counts as a ranking of importance. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $22,792,830,290.34 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 1,297 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
- Where is the live table?
- Department of the Treasury in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending and Department of the Treasury are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. Texas federal spending and Department of the Treasury are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $22,792,830,290.34. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.