Do Idaho campaign donations pay for federal awards in Idaho?

No. $7.7 million in FEC receipts and $85,663,312,878 in USAspending obligations are different datasets joined by the ID code. 275 committees are not the 109,355 award actions. A shared state tag is not a funding path.

How much has the federal government obligated in Idaho?

USAspending.gov records $85,663,312,878 across 109,355 awards coded to Idaho. That sum is obligations, not Treasury outlays and not campaign spending. Idaho federal spending holds the live award table. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why is Idaho’s FEC other line so large?

Other and unaffiliated committees reported $3.5 million, or 45.0% of $7.7 million, more than Republican $3.3 million or Democratic $947,686. Those labels describe 275 candidate committees, not USAspending recipients. The other line is not a vendor party code.

Where are Idaho’s USAspending and FEC pages?

Idaho federal spending on SpendingVault is the obligation hub. Idaho 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.

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Idaho federal obligations next to FEC candidate receipts

USAspending.gov records $85,663,312,878 in Idaho-coded obligations across 109,355 awards. FEC.gov candidate committees tagged to Idaho reported $7.7 million from 275 filers — and other-party and unaffiliated filers account for 45.0% of that book, more than either major party alone. That other-line majority is still only a campaign-committee fact.

Key figures

Idaho USAspending obligations total $85,663,312,878 across 109,355 awards.
Idaho FEC receipts total $7.7 million across 275 committees.
Other-party filers reported 45.0% of receipts, not of awards.
The join is geographic. Donations do not fund obligations on this page.

ID is a join key, not a lab-to-PAC trail

SpendingVault indexes $85,663,312,878 in Idaho obligations. LobbyVault indexes $7.7 million in Idaho candidate receipts. National-lab and interior-agency stories are reasons someone might open both tables. They are not fields that connect a contribution to an award ID. The relationship is the ID abbreviation shared by 109,355 award actions and 275 committees.

$85.7 billion in commitments is not a restatement of $7.7 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 Idaho federal spending for the award table and Idaho FEC totals for the candidate table. All spending ties lists other state joins built the same way.

What the 109,355-award extract actually counts

109,355 is a row count of award actions, including modifications. It is not a unique-vendor census. $85,663,312,878 is the matching obligation sum. Average dollars per action are about $783,351 if you divide those two facts — not a typical energy line and not a typical assistance award.

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

An other-party plurality on a small receipt book

Other and unaffiliated filers reported $3.5 million (45.0% of $7.7 million). Republican committees reported $3.3 million (42.7%). Democratic committees reported $947,686 (12.3%). 275 federal candidate committees tagged to Idaho sit behind those lines. An 45.0% other-line share is not a share of $85,663,312,878, and it is not a census of independent voters.

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

Boise versus the rest of Idaho is not a third total

This packet does not split $7.7 million or $85,663,312,878 between the Treasure Valley and rural Idaho. 275 committees and 109,355 awards are statewide. A metro cut would be a different extract. Independent expenditures about Idaho candidates can be paid from elsewhere and sit in neither total.

Do not add $7.7 million to $85,663,312,878. Do not divide awards by committees. Candidate committees are not award recipients in this join. Correlation is not causation. The join exists so the series can be read side by side with the caveat attached.

Idaho citation without mixing sources

USAspending.gov: $85,663,312,878; 109,355 awards. FEC.gov: $7.7 million; 275 committees; other $3.5 million; Republican $3.3 million; Democratic $947,686. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

275 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 109,355 is an action count, not unique vendors. State-office campaigns file under Idaho law and sit outside the FEC extract. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside the obligation total.

Lab headlines are not a third dollar series

Energy-lab stories are reasons a researcher opens Idaho’s pair. They are not packet fields. The join still contains only $85,663,312,878 in obligations, 109,355 award actions, $7.7 million in receipts, and 275 committees. A headline that treats those series as one ‘federal money in Idaho’ 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. Idaho federal spending and Idaho FEC totals are the live tables. All spending ties does not hide a blended total under Idaho’s slug. Do not rank Idaho as more influential because receipts sit beside obligations. Lab names belong on Idaho federal spending if they appear as recipients; they do not belong on the FEC sentence. Keep the other-line share on the receipt sentence only.

Keep Idaho’s other-line share on the FEC sentence only. A researcher who wants both pictures keeps two tabs and does not add the totals.

Questions

Do Idaho campaign donations pay for federal awards in Idaho?: No. $7.7 million in FEC receipts and $85,663,312,878 in USAspending obligations are different datasets joined by the ID code. 275 committees are not the 109,355 award actions. A shared state tag is not a funding path.
How much has the federal government obligated in Idaho?: USAspending.gov records $85,663,312,878 across 109,355 awards coded to Idaho. That sum is obligations, not Treasury outlays and not campaign spending. Idaho federal spending holds the live award table. Original filings remain on the source sites.
Why is Idaho’s FEC other line so large?: Other and unaffiliated committees reported $3.5 million, or 45.0% of $7.7 million, more than Republican $3.3 million or Democratic $947,686. Those labels describe 275 candidate committees, not USAspending recipients. The other line is not a vendor party code.
Where are Idaho’s USAspending and FEC pages?: Idaho federal spending on SpendingVault is the obligation hub. Idaho 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.

Join of USAspending.gov state obligations with FEC.gov candidate receipts for the same state. These are different datasets — donations do not fund the obligations on this page.