Department of Veterans Affairs in Virginia 2nd District (VA-02)

What the Veterans Affairs–VA-02 join is

Agency 036 and Virginia 2nd District (VA-02) meet in one place-of-performance cell. $1,330,136,443.36 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum tagged to that pair. It is not the district's full $18,441,444,277.67 book, not every Veterans Affairs dollar in Virginia, and not an outlay. The Virginia 2nd District hub still lists other awarding agencies; the Department of Veterans Affairs hub still lists other districts. Only this intersection is reported here.

Veterans-care speech often names medical centers, clinics, and benefits offices in one breath. This packet does not split $1,330,136,443.36 among those sites, name primes, or count patients. A reader who assigns the cell to a single facility or a single vendor adds a label the facts do not carry. Correlation with local health news is not causation.

VA-02's district book beside agency 036

7.2% of $18,441,444,277.67 is tagged to Department of Veterans Affairs in this extract. The remainder sits on other awarding-agency rows for the same district. Adding those rows back into $1,330,136,443.36 would double-count. The Virginia 2nd District page at /districts/VA-02/ is the parent without an agency-036 filter.

Department of Veterans Affairs at /agencies/036/ is the parent without a VA-02 filter. Virginia federal spending at /states/va/ drops the district cut. Do not treat $1,330,136,443.36 as statewide Veterans Affairs obligations. All spending ties at /ties/ indexes other district–agency pairs. Obligations remain commitments, not checks cleared.

1,156 award records are not a facility census

1,156 is the award-record count published with this Department of Veterans Affairs × VA-02 cell, not a count of clinics and not unique vendors. Dividing $1,330,136,443.36 by 1,156 would invent a typical invoice the packet never computed. Modifications can add lines without adding recipients. Named contractors and medical centers are unpublished.

What the Veterans Affairs VA-02 table omits

No outlays, no facility split, no patient counts, no named primes. Campaign donations recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. Place of performance is a geography tag, not proof that a medical center headquarters sits in VA-02. Keep agency 036 and Virginia 2nd District on the same citation as $1,330,136,443.36.

Citing Veterans Affairs in Virginia 2nd District

A clean footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036), Virginia 2nd District (VA-02), $1,330,136,443.36 in obligations, and 1,156 award records on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Quote the district hub if you need every awarding agency in VA-02, and quote the Veterans Affairs hub if you need agency 036 without the district filter.

Reuse $1,330,136,443.36 only as Department of Veterans Affairs obligations with place of performance in VA-02. The 1,156 award-record count stays on this join. Filings remain on USAspending.gov. FEC contribution tables are a different dataset. Keep Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) and Virginia 2nd District (VA-02) together when citing $1,330,136,443.36. The 1,156 award-record count is the join field, not a unique-vendor census. Obligations of $1,330,136,443.36 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Do not add the district parent of $18,441,444,277.67 into this agency-036 cell. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Place of performance in VA-02 is a geography tag, not a contractor roster. 7.2% is the published share of $18,441,444,277.67 tagged to Department of Veterans Affairs in this extract. Other awarding agencies on the Virginia 2nd District hub sit outside $1,330,136,443.36. Reuse the figure only as the 036 × VA-02 obligation join. Later USAspending ingests can restate $1,330,136,443.36. Cite the pair as commitments, not as checks already cleared in Virginia. The All spending ties index holds other keys.

Questions

How much did Veterans Affairs obligate in Virginia 2nd District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,330,136,443.36 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations with place of performance in Virginia 2nd District (VA-02). The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's full $18,441,444,277.67 book. Other agencies in VA-02 sit outside this join.

Do 1,156 awards equal 1,156 VA clinics in VA-02?

No. The packet publishes 1,156 as the join award-record count, not as clinics, unique vendors, or named facilities. The extract does not name contractors. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep agency 036 and VA-02 in the citation.

Is this all federal spending in Virginia 2nd District?

No. The join is awarding agency 036 crossed with VA-02 place of performance. The district parent in this packet is $18,441,444,277.67. Veterans Affairs' share of that book is 7.2%. Other awarding agencies are separate cells on the district hub.

Did FEC donations fund these Veterans Affairs awards?

No. $1,330,136,443.36 is a USAspending obligation aggregate. FEC contribution tables are a different dataset and do not fund these awards. Outlays are unpublished. Cite agency 036 plus Virginia 2nd District (VA-02). USAspending.gov remains the source for agency 036 in VA-02.