Department of Veterans Affairs obligations in Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02)

What the Veterans Affairs–AR-02 join is

Awarding agency 036 and congressional district AR-02 meet here. $1,013,452,295.43 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Veterans Affairs’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,614 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a patient census, an enrollment file, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $1,013,452,295.43 by 1,614 yields about $627,913.44 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,614 awards is a thick VA file. Volume pulls the implied mean down relative to thin Veterans Affairs cells. Recipients stay unpublished. Do not treat AR-02’s 036 cell as a synonym for every Veterans Affairs account nationwide. Open Arkansas 2nd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without the AR-02 filter, Arkansas federal spending for every awarding agency in the Arkansas extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $1,013,452,295.43.

Awarding agency 036 as the Veterans Affairs side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $1,013,452,295.43 when crossed with Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require AR-02 geography. The district hub does not require Veterans Affairs. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,614 awards. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) did not “cause” $1,013,452,295.43 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 036 × AR-02 only. It is not a patient census, an enrollment file, 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.

Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) as place of performance

Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list AR-02 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Arkansas districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 036. Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Arkansas. Other Arkansas districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 036. Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) is a numbered place-of-performance code inside Arkansas. Other Arkansas districts keep their own agency joins.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $1,013,452,295.43 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside AR-02 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 $1,013,452,295.43 as given.

Arkansas’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,614-row Veterans Affairs cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,614 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 ($627,913.44) is a concentration statistic, not a typical AR-02 Veterans Affairs payment.

How to cite Veterans Affairs in AR-02

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $1,013,452,295.43 on 1,614 awards coded to Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02). Name Department of Veterans Affairs and Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) together. Keep the obligation word. If Arkansas 2nd District or Department of Veterans Affairs has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a patient census, an enrollment file, or a named-contractor file. 8.8% of $11,565,306,530.99 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Veterans Affairs, Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02), $1,013,452,295.43, and 1,614 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a AR-02 filter. Arkansas federal spending is the Arkansas parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Veterans Affairs 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 Veterans Affairs file in AR-02

1,614 awards is a thick VA file. Volume pulls the implied mean down relative to thin Veterans Affairs cells. Recipients stay unpublished. 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 $627,913.44) and the district share (8.8% of $11,565,306,530.99) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Arkansas 2nd District and Department of Veterans Affairs if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much Veterans Affairs spending is coded to Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02)?

USAspending.gov lists $1,013,452,295.43 in Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligations across 1,614 awards coded to Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Arkansas’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 8.8% of the district’s published total ($11,565,306,530.99). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $1,013,452,295.43 include every Veterans Affairs program in AR-02?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. $1,013,452,295.43 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside AR-02 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 1,614 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $1,013,452,295.43 cash already paid in Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02)?

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 $1,013,452,295.43 as checks already cleared in Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,614 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Where is the live Veterans Affairs–AR-02 table?

Arkansas 2nd District is the district parent and Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency parent. Arkansas federal spending covers Arkansas 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 $1,013,452,295.43. Place of performance is AR-02. Obligations are not outlays.