Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in District of Columbia

What the VA–District of Columbia join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state DC meet here. $6,855,804,466.90 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 District of Columbia, and not an outlay register. Headquarters, health care, and benefits instruments can share 036. A thinner DC file with a larger mean is not proof that ‘all VA lives in Washington.’

2,555 is a moderate row count, consistent with a mix of formula vehicles and project awards, without naming those vehicles. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $6,855,804,466.90 by 2,555 yields about $2.68 million per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line.

Open Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia for the live filtered table, District of Columbia federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a District of Columbia filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $6,855,804,466.90.

Awarding agency 036 as the VA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $6,855,804,466.90 when crossed with District of Columbia place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require DC geography. The District of Columbia hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 2,555 awards.

A veteran-of-the-capital census, a hospital ranking, and a medical-versus-benefits split are unpublished. 2,555 awards is much thinner than Kentucky’s 36,962-row VA file in this slice. A second VA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat District of Columbia’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.

District of Columbia as place of performance (DC)

District of Columbia on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to District of Columbia residents. Awards can list DC while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Maryland or Virginia stay on those ties even when the campus is a Metro ride away. The District of Columbia is the geography key; do not fold suburban medical centers into DC.

District of Columbia federal spending shows how agency 036 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $6,855,804,466.90 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split District of Columbia by county, metro, or congressional district.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $6,855,804,466.90 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside District of Columbia 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.

District of Columbia’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,555-row VA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $6,855,804,466.90 as given. Treat 2,555 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors.

How to cite VA in District of Columbia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $6,855,804,466.90 on 2,555 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name Department of Veterans Affairs and District of Columbia together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Keep Department of Veterans Affairs, District of Columbia, $6,855,804,466.90, and 2,555 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a District of Columbia filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.

Questions

How much VA spending is coded to District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov lists $6,855,804,466.90 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 2,555 District of Columbia-coded awards. Agency 036 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not District of Columbia’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $2.68 million, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every VA program in District of Columbia?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $6,855,804,466.90 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside District of Columbia coding. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia to inspect award lines. 2,555 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.

Is $6,855,804,466.90 cash already paid in District of Columbia?

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 $6,855,804,466.90 as checks already cleared in District of Columbia confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,555 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–District of Columbia table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $6,855,804,466.90. Place of performance is DC, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.