Florida campaign finance next to federal obligations

Florida’s two federal extracts

Obligations of $952,308,007,065.67 sit on USAspending.gov. Receipts of $167,514,836.98 sit on FEC.gov. Award count is 878,079; candidate-committee count is 2,341. Those four numbers answer four different questions: how much agencies committed, how many award actions were stored, how much candidate committees reported, and how many candidate committees were tagged to Florida.

Florida federal spending holds the obligation table. Florida FEC totals holds the receipt table. All spending ties lists other state joins. None of those pages converts a contribution into an award.

Obligations and award rows in Florida

The $952,308,007,065.67 figure is an obligation total, not an outlay. Cash that has left the Treasury is a different USAspending series. The 878,079 awards are file rows: contracts, assistance actions, and modifications. A large hospital system or a small disaster-assistance payment can each be one row. This packet does not publish a typical-award size, so none is invented.

Recipient names on the spending hub are not FEC donor names. Mixing them produces a false influence story.

Florida candidate receipts and party codes

Florida’s FEC total is $167,514,836.98 from 2,341 committees. Republican committees reported $87,773,114.40 (about 52.4%). Democratic committees reported $78,724,787.13 (about 47.0%). Other and unaffiliated filers reported $1,016,935.45 (about 0.6%). The Republican edge is a receipt-share fact on candidate committees. It does not describe the 878,079 awards.

2,341 filers include primary candidates and residual committees. It is not a count of Florida’s congressional seats and not a count of federal contractors in the state.

A 52–47 receipt split is not an award split

About 52.4% Republican and about 47.0% Democratic describes $167,514,836.98 only. Printing those percentages next to $952,308,007,065.67 as if agencies obligated money by party invents a field USAspending.gov does not carry on this extract.

Adding the two dollar totals, or calling receipts a rounding error inside obligations, still mixes ledgers. Correlation is not causation. Different statutes, different filers.

What Florida’s join leaves out

Tallahassee state campaigns file under Florida law and are absent from $167,514,836.98. County procurement is absent from $952,308,007,065.67. Independent expenditures are not extra facts in this packet. Unitemized contribution detail below FEC thresholds is not a separate line here.

Cite USAspending.gov for $952,308,007,065.67 and 878,079 awards. Cite FEC.gov for $167,514,836.98, 2,341 committees, and the party split. The live pages are Florida federal spending and Florida FEC totals. All spending ties is the join index.

State campaigns and local procurement stay off the Florida join

Florida state-office campaigns file under Florida law. Those reports never enter $167,514,836.98 and never enter $952,308,007,065.67. County and municipal procurement is outside USAspending.gov. Disaster-assistance awards, when they appear in the 878,079 rows, are still agency obligations, not campaign receipts. This page does not publish an agency split, so none is quoted.

Independent expenditures are not extra packet facts. Unitemized donor lists below the FEC itemization threshold are not a separate line here. The 2,341 committees include whatever those committees reported as receipts on the committee form, including unitemized totals on that form, but this join does not publish a unique-donor census. Award count 878,079 is a row count of actions, not a unique-vendor census.

Cite USAspending.gov for $952,308,007,065.67 and 878,079 awards. Cite FEC.gov for $167,514,836.98, Republican $87,773,114.40 (about 52.4%), Democratic $78,724,787.13 (about 47.0%), other $1,016,935.45 (about 0.6%). Amended Form 3 filings can move the receipt snapshot. They do not rewrite USAspending award rows. Florida federal spending and Florida FEC totals remain the live hubs. All spending ties is the join index.

Obligations of $952,308,007,065.67 and receipts of $167,514,836.98 will both move when the source files republish. Quote the source name with each figure. Florida federal spending remains the award table; Florida FEC totals remains the receipt table. All spending ties lists other state joins built the same way. A shared FL code is still not a funding path.

Questions

Do Florida campaign donations pay for federal awards?

No. USAspending obligations of $952,308,007,065.67 and FEC receipts of $167,514,836.98 are different datasets joined only by state. Agencies record 878,079 awards as obligations. A shared FL code is not a funding path.

How much federal spending is obligated in Florida?

USAspending.gov records indexed here show $952,308,007,065.67 in obligations across 878,079 awards tagged to Florida. That figure is an obligation total, not an outlay series and not an FEC receipt total.

How much have Florida federal candidates raised?

FEC.gov aggregates show $167,514,836.98 in candidate receipts across 2,341 federal committees tagged to Florida. Republican filers reported $87,773,114.40 (about 52.4%). Democratic filers reported $78,724,787.13 (about 47.0%). That split does not describe awards.

Can I combine Florida receipts with Florida obligations?

No. Adding $167,514,836.98 to $952,308,007,065.67 invents a total neither source publishes. Keep the ledgers named separately.