Department of Veterans Affairs obligations in Texas 31st District (TX-31)

Department of Veterans Affairs and Texas 31st District (TX-31) as a USAspending pair

Awarding agency 036 and congressional district TX-31 meet here. $1,130,190,613.38 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 Texas 31st District (TX-31), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. 954 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $1,130,190,613.38 by 954 yields about $1,184,686.18 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 954 awards is a moderately thick VA file. Modifications and repeat instruments add lines. Unique recipients remain unpublished. Do not treat TX-31’s 036 cell as a synonym for every Veterans Affairs account nationwide. Open Texas 31st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without the TX-31 filter, Texas federal spending for every awarding agency in the Texas extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $1,130,190,613.38.

How USAspending labels Department of Veterans Affairs

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $1,130,190,613.38 when crossed with Texas 31st District (TX-31) place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require TX-31 geography. The district hub does not require Veterans Affairs. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 954 awards. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Texas 31st District (TX-31) did not “cause” $1,130,190,613.38 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 036 × TX-31 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.

Geography is TX-31, not a facility map

Texas 31st District (TX-31) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list TX-31 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Texas districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 036. Texas 31st District (TX-31) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Texas. Other Texas districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 036. Texas 31st District (TX-31) is a numbered place-of-performance geography, distinct from TX-20’s NASA cell and TX-14’s Transportation cell. Agency 036 is Veterans Affairs, not Virginia.

Texas federal spending shows how agency 036 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $1,130,190,613.38 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Texas 31st District (TX-31) 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 Veterans Affairs. The district-wide obligation total published here is $8,459,227,545.97; $1,130,190,613.38 is the Veterans Affairs slice of that denominator.

Commitment totals versus cash paid

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $1,130,190,613.38 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside TX-31 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 $1,130,190,613.38 as given.

Keeping both sides of the 036 × TX-31 pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $1,130,190,613.38 on 954 awards coded to Texas 31st District (TX-31). Name Department of Veterans Affairs and Texas 31st District (TX-31) together. Keep the obligation word. If Texas 31st 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. 13.4% of $8,459,227,545.97 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Share, mean, and what they are not

954 awards is a moderately thick VA file. Modifications and repeat instruments add lines. Unique recipients remain 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 $1,184,686.18) and the district share (13.4% of $8,459,227,545.97) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Texas 31st District and Department of Veterans Affairs if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Texas 31st District (TX-31) as more Veterans Affairs-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 036 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 036 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $1,130,190,613.38 and 954 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much Veterans Affairs spending is coded to Texas 31st District (TX-31)?

USAspending.gov lists $1,130,190,613.38 in Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligations across 954 awards coded to Texas 31st District (TX-31). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Texas’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 13.4% of the district’s published total ($8,459,227,545.97). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $1,130,190,613.38 include every Veterans Affairs program in TX-31?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. $1,130,190,613.38 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside TX-31 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 954 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $1,130,190,613.38 cash already paid in Texas 31st District (TX-31)?

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 $1,130,190,613.38 as checks already cleared in Texas 31st District (TX-31) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 954 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

How does this Veterans Affairs cell relate to Texas statewide spending?

Texas federal spending is the Texas statewide extract across awarding agencies. $1,130,190,613.38 is the Department of Veterans Affairs amount inside Texas 31st District (TX-31) only, not the statewide Veterans Affairs total. Adding Texas federal spending to $1,130,190,613.38 double-counts. Agency 036 nationwide lives on Department of Veterans Affairs. This join is 036 × TX-31.