Department of Veterans Affairs obligations in Texas 33rd District (TX-33)

Veterans Affairs obligations coded to Texas 33rd District (TX-33)

Awarding agency 036 and congressional district TX-33 meet here. $8,624,198,178.70 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 33rd District (TX-33), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. 109 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $8,624,198,178.70 by 109 yields about $79,121,084.21 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 109 awards is a compact VA file. Do not read it as a patient count or an enrollment file. Do not treat TX-33’s 036 cell as a synonym for every Veterans Affairs account nationwide. Open Texas 33rd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without the TX-33 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 $8,624,198,178.70.

What Veterans Affairs contributes to this pair

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $8,624,198,178.70 when crossed with Texas 33rd District (TX-33) place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require TX-33 geography. The district hub does not require Veterans Affairs. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 109 awards. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Texas 33rd District (TX-33) did not “cause” $8,624,198,178.70 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 036 × TX-33 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.

District geography versus Texas statewide totals

Texas 33rd District (TX-33) 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-33 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Texas districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 036. Texas 33rd District (TX-33) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Texas. Other Texas districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 036. Texas 33rd District (TX-33) is a numbered place-of-performance geography, distinct from TX-27 and TX-37. The packet does not publish facility names.

Texas federal spending shows how agency 036 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $8,624,198,178.70 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Texas 33rd District (TX-33) 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 $54,453,144,624.98; $8,624,198,178.70 is the Veterans Affairs slice of that denominator.

Why this is not an outlay register

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $8,624,198,178.70 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside TX-33 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 $8,624,198,178.70 as given.

Texas’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 109-row Veterans Affairs cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 109 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 ($79,121,084.21) is a concentration statistic, not a typical TX-33 Veterans Affairs payment.

Live tables versus this snapshot

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $8,624,198,178.70 on 109 awards coded to Texas 33rd District (TX-33). Name Department of Veterans Affairs and Texas 33rd District (TX-33) together. Keep the obligation word. If Texas 33rd 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. 15.8% of $54,453,144,624.98 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Veterans Affairs, Texas 33rd District (TX-33), $8,624,198,178.70, and 109 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a TX-33 filter. Texas federal spending is the Texas 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.

What this packet refuses to infer

109 awards is a compact VA file. Do not read it as a patient count or an enrollment file. 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 $79,121,084.21) and the district share (15.8% of $54,453,144,624.98) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Texas 33rd District and Department of Veterans Affairs if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Texas 33rd District (TX-33) 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 $8,624,198,178.70 and 109 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 33rd District (TX-33)?

USAspending.gov lists $8,624,198,178.70 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 109 awards with place of performance in Texas 33rd District (TX-33). Agency 036 × TX-33 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Texas’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 15.8% of the district’s published total ($54,453,144,624.98). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $79,121,084.21, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $8,624,198,178.70 include every Veterans Affairs program in TX-33?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split VA administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. $8,624,198,178.70 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside TX-33 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Veterans Affairs and Texas 33rd District to inspect parent tables. 109 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $8,624,198,178.70 cash already paid in Texas 33rd District (TX-33)?

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 $8,624,198,178.70 as checks already cleared in Texas 33rd District (TX-33) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 109 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

What share of TX-33 obligations is agency 036?

Agency 036 accounts for 15.8% of $54,453,144,624.98 in district-wide obligations on this packet. That share is $8,624,198,178.70 ÷ $54,453,144,624.98. It is not a ranking of Texas districts and not an outlay share. Other awarding agencies occupy the remaining district total on other ties.