Louisiana federal obligations next to FEC candidate receipts

Louisiana’s two federal dollar series

LA joins $222,944,900,046 from 212,091 awards to $80.0 million from 687 committees. A New Orleans contribution does not become a Baton Rouge obligation because both rows say Louisiana. Matching the state code is the entire relationship. No form maps a Schedule A gift to an award ID.

The obligation total ($222.9 billion) is an agency commitment rollup from USAspending.gov. It is not cash already paid and not a campaign disbursement. Mean dollars per award action are about $1,051,176 if you divide the two spending facts — a ratio, not a typical Corps of Engineers contract.

Louisiana federal spending, Louisiana FEC totals, and All spending ties are the three doors. None of those pages adds receipts to obligations.

Award actions without a party overlay

212,091 is an action count. Modifications add rows. Unique vendors are not published here. $222,944,900,046 can be dominated by a few large awards even when the row count looks large. Disaster, energy, health, and defense folklore are not packet NAICS. Open Louisiana federal spending for agency fields that exist.

Place of performance in Louisiana is a USAspending geography field. Work, subcontracting, or later modifications can occur elsewhere. Citing {n['obl']} as ‘spent on the Gulf’ over-reads the field. Obligations are not outlays.

Republican-heavy FEC receipts on 687 committees

Republican committees reported $69.3 million (86.7% of $80.0 million). Democratic committees reported $10.6 million (13.3%). Other filers reported $72,833 (0.1%), a sliver. 687 federal candidate committees tagged to Louisiana sit behind those lines, including residual filers. Sort Louisiana FEC totals by receipts to see which committees actually moved money.

86.7% is a committee-label share. USAspending awards in this packet have no Republican flag. Copying that percentage onto $222,944,900,046 would assign party to vendors and grantees this file does not party-code. State-office campaigns file under Louisiana law, outside the FEC extract.

Parish folklore is not a third ledger

This packet does not split $80.0 million or $222,944,900,046 by parish. 687 committees and 212,091 awards stay statewide. A New Orleans–versus–north Louisiana cut would be a different extract. Independent expenditures about Louisiana candidates can be paid from elsewhere and sit in neither total.

Do not rank Louisiana as more politically ‘connected’ because $80.0 million sits beside $222,944,900,046. Influence is not a field in this packet. The join is LA geography only. Correlation is not causation.

Louisiana citation without a plus sign

USAspending.gov: $222,944,900,046; 212,091 awards. FEC.gov: $80.0 million; 687 committees; Republican $69.3 million; Democratic $10.6 million; other $72,833. Campaign contributions are not federal awards. Amended reports move receipts; award restatements move obligations. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. 687 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 212,091 is an action count, not unique vendors. Parish splits are not in this packet. Independent expenditures about Louisiana candidates can be paid from elsewhere and sit in neither total.

Petrochemical headlines are not a third ledger

Refinery and port stories are why some readers open Louisiana’s pair. They are not packet NAICS and they do not attach a contribution to an award ID. The facts remain $222,944,900,046 in obligations, 212,091 award actions, $80.0 million in candidate receipts, and 687 committees. A headline that folds those series into one ‘federal money in Louisiana’ figure mixes statutes.

If a later USAspending ingest restates the obligation total, rewrite the spending sentence only. If a later FEC bulk file restates receipts, rewrite the campaign sentence only. Louisiana federal spending and Louisiana FEC totals are the live tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. All spending ties does not hide a blended total under Louisiana’s slug. Do not rank Louisiana as more politically connected because receipts sit beside obligations. Influence is not a field in this packet. Parish names belong on Louisiana federal spending if they appear as place-of-performance rows; they do not belong on the FEC sentence.

Questions

Do Louisiana campaign donations pay for federal awards?

No. $80.0 million in FEC receipts and $222,944,900,046 in USAspending obligations are different datasets joined by the LA code. 687 candidate committees are not the 212,091 award actions. A shared state tag is not a funding path.

How much has the federal government obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $222,944,900,046 across 212,091 awards coded to Louisiana. That sum is obligations — legal commitments — not Treasury outlays and not campaign spending. Louisiana federal spending holds the live award table. Original filings remain on the source sites.

How much have Louisiana federal candidates raised?

FEC.gov aggregates show $80.0 million across 687 committees tagged to Louisiana. Republican filers reported $69.3 million (86.7%). Democratic filers reported $10.6 million (13.3%). Those shares do not describe USAspending awards. Party labels travel with the candidate file only.

Where are Louisiana’s USAspending and FEC pages?

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