Department of Veterans Affairs obligations in Texas 7th District (TX-07)

VA × TX-07 is a high-share care join, not a Houston patient census

This page is a join: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) as awarding agency, and Texas 7th District (TX-07) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,357,384,359.74 on 251 awards. The join is awarding-agency 036 crossed with a TX-07 location field, not Texas’s entire veterans budget and not a named medical-center or patient roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 251 awards equal 251 patients, clinics, or unique contractors.

The VA × TX-35 cell in this slice is a different district. DoD health or VA-coded awards in TX-02 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 036 and TX-07. Mixing those books into $1,357,384,359.74 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and veteran population is not causation. Enrollee and bed-day tables are not in the packet. Place of performance as TX-07 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,357,384,359.74 in a district treasury. West-Houston-versus-Energy-Corridor folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

251 awards behind $1.36 billion

Mean obligation is about $5,407,905.82 if $1,357,384,359.74 were divided evenly across 251 lines. That ratio is not a published cost per patient and not a typical CCN claim. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of patients, clinics, or unique vendors. Two hundred fifty-one awards against a $1.36 billion cell is a moderate, high-mean VA file, and the cell is a large share of this district’s all-agency parent.

Medical contracts and leases can both appear among the 251 lines. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Texas 7th District for the stored district table. Do not convert 251 into a map of Texas 7th District VA clinics. The $1,357,384,359.74 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a patient census.

Texas 7th District, not a west-Houston clinic rollup

Texas 7th District (TX-07) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to TX-02, TX-09, or another Texas district are out even if the city name sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $3,405,943,883.86 across every awarding agency; $1,357,384,359.74 is the Department of Veterans Affairs slice — about 39.9% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

TX-35 VA is a sibling join, not an addend. Mixing the two would invent a combined Texas VA figure the packet never computed. Do not rank TX-07 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Texas district cells are other joins. Texas federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Department of Veterans Affairs dollars to $1,357,384,359.74 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Agency 036 obligations are not community-care claims already paid

VA awards often obligate as medical contracts, leases, and assistance rows and draw as care is delivered. The $1,357,384,359.74 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of encounters completed and not a Treasury outlay total. A VA medical-center dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 036, TX-07 geography, and the obligation metric.

Department of Veterans Affairs is the nationwide agency book without a TX-07 filter. This extract does not split health care from benefits, and it does not split community care from in-house contracts. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 251 awards, agency 036, and Texas 7th District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the TX-07 VA table omits

The extract has no medical-center names, patient counts, or contractor names. Facts remain $1,357,384,359.74, 251 awards, agency 036, Department of Veterans Affairs, Texas 7th District (TX-07), and district parent $3,405,943,883.86. Facility folklore belongs on another extract if it appears at all. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 251-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the VA × TX-07 pair lives

Start with Texas 7th District for the district rollup that contains this Department of Veterans Affairs cell. Department of Veterans Affairs is the nationwide agency listing. Texas federal spending gives Texas context without a TX-07 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 251 awards totaling this cell remain an administrative file, not a patient census. Keep both Department of Veterans Affairs and Texas 7th District (TX-07) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,357,384,359.74 as cash already paid or as Texas’s entire veterans appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much VA spending is obligated in Texas 7th District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,357,384,359.74 in Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligations with Texas 7th District (TX-07) as place of performance, across 251 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $3,405,943,883.86 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 036.

Do 251 awards mean 251 VA clinics in TX-07?

No. Award count is a row count of Department of Veterans Affairs actions tagged to TX-07. It is not a clinic, patient, or vendor census. Mean obligation of about $5,407,905.82 is a quotient of $1,357,384,359.74 and 251, not a cost per veteran.

Does this VA cell include the TX-35 VA join?

No. Texas 35th District is a different geography tag. $1,357,384,359.74 is about 39.9% of the Texas 7th District parent $3,405,943,883.86 by arithmetic — a large slice of a relatively small district book.

Is the TX-07 VA total already paid as care?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,357,384,359.74 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Claims draws and remaining balances are not published here.