Hawaii federal obligations next to FEC candidate receipts

HI is a join key, not a base-to-PAC trail

SpendingVault indexes $69,805,569,916 in Hawaii obligations. LobbyVault indexes $4.9 million in Hawaii candidate receipts. Military-base and tourism stories are reasons someone might open both tables. They are not fields that connect a contribution to an award ID. The relationship is the HI abbreviation shared by 84,240 award actions and 391 committees.

$69.8 billion in commitments is not a restatement of $4.9 million in receipts. Obligations measure what agencies promised to pay. Receipts measure what candidate committees booked. Citing either number as a proxy for the other is a category error.

Open Hawaii federal spending for the award table and Hawaii FEC totals for the candidate table. All spending ties lists other state joins built the same way. None of those pages converts donations into obligations.

What the 84,240-award extract actually counts

84,240 is a row count of award actions, including modifications. It is not a unique-vendor census. $69,805,569,916 is the matching obligation sum. Average dollars per action are about $828,651 if you divide those two facts — not a typical defense line and not a typical assistance award.

Place of performance tagged to Hawaii is not proof that every dollar was disbursed in-state. Outlays can lag. This packet publishes obligations, not outlays. Recipient names live on Hawaii federal spending, not inside the FEC roster. Repeat awards to the same entity add rows.

Democratic-heavy receipts on 391 committees

Democratic committees reported $4.2 million (87.4% of $4.9 million). Republican committees reported $592,748 (12.2%). Other filers reported $21,547 (0.4%). 391 federal candidate committees tagged to Hawaii sit behind those lines. A 87.4% receipt share is not a share of $69,805,569,916.

Party labels travel with candidate committees. USAspending rows here have no party field. State-office campaigns file under Hawaii law and sit outside the FEC total. Do not paint obligation dollars with FEC colors.

Oahu versus the neighbor islands is not a packet split

This extract does not divide $69,805,569,916 or $4.9 million between Oahu and the neighbor islands. 84,240 awards and 391 committees are statewide. An island cut would be a different file. Independent expenditures about Hawaii candidates can be paid from elsewhere and sit in neither total.

Do not add $4.9 million to $69,805,569,916. Do not divide awards by committees. Candidate committees are not award recipients in this join. Correlation is not causation.

Hawaii citation without a plus sign

USAspending.gov: $69,805,569,916; 84,240 awards. FEC.gov: $4.9 million; 391 committees; Democratic $4.2 million; Republican $592,748; other $21,547. Campaign contributions are not federal awards. 391 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 84,240 is an action count, not unique vendors.

Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside the obligation total. Amended reports move receipts; award restatements move obligations. Hawaii federal spending and Hawaii FEC totals are the live hubs. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved.

Base headlines are not a third dollar series

Installation stories are reasons a researcher opens Hawaii’s pair. They are not packet fields. The join still contains only $69,805,569,916 in obligations, 84,240 award actions, $4.9 million in receipts, and 391 committees. A headline that treats those series as one ‘federal money in Hawaii’ figure mixes statutes.

If a later USAspending ingest restates obligations, rewrite the spending sentence only. If a later FEC bulk file restates receipts, rewrite the campaign sentence only. All spending ties does not hide a blended total under Hawaii’s slug. Do not rank Hawaii as more influential because receipts sit beside obligations. Influence is not a field in this packet. Island names belong on Hawaii federal spending if they appear as place-of-performance rows; they do not belong on the FEC sentence.

Keep Hawaii’s obligation total labeled as commitments, not outlays. A researcher who wants both pictures keeps two tabs and does not add the totals. Amended candidate reports move receipts; award restatements move obligations.

Questions

Do Hawaii campaign donations pay for federal awards in Hawaii?

No. $4.9 million in FEC receipts and $69,805,569,916 in USAspending obligations are different datasets joined by the HI code. 391 committees are not the 84,240 award actions. A shared state tag is not a funding path.

How much has the federal government obligated in Hawaii?

USAspending.gov records $69,805,569,916 across 84,240 awards coded to Hawaii. That sum is obligations, not Treasury outlays and not campaign spending. Hawaii federal spending holds the live award table. Original filings remain on the source sites.

How Democratic is Hawaii’s federal candidate fundraising?

Democratic committees reported $4.2 million, or 87.4% of $4.9 million. Republican committees reported $592,748 (12.2%). Other filers reported $21,547. Those percentages describe 391 committees, not USAspending recipients. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where are Hawaii’s USAspending and FEC pages?

Hawaii federal spending on SpendingVault is the obligation hub. Hawaii FEC totals on LobbyVault is the candidate-receipt hub. All spending ties lists other state joins. Cite each source in its own sentence. Original filings remain on the source sites.