Maine federal obligations next to FEC candidate receipts

ME joins two tables; shipyard folklore does not

SpendingVault holds $93,098,204,945 in Maine obligations. LobbyVault holds $46.3 million in Maine candidate receipts. Shipyard and forest-product stories may send a reader to both hubs. Those stories are not a mapping from a contribution to an award ID. The join key is ME, shared by 54,350 award actions and 282 committees.

$93.1 billion in commitments is not a restatement of $46.3 million in receipts. Obligations are agency promises. Receipts are campaign bookings. Adding them invents a Maine federal-money headline no agency published.

Maine federal spending, Maine FEC totals, and All spending ties are the three doors. None converts donations into spending.

54,350 award actions beside a large receipt book

54,350 is a record count. Assistance actions and modifications add rows. It is not a unique-recipient roster. $93,098,204,945 is the matching commitment sum. Mean dollars per action are about $1,712,938 if you divide those two facts — a calculator output, not a typical shipyard contract. A smaller row count can still hold a large dollar total if a few awards dominate.

Place of performance tagged to Maine can include work that later moves. Outlays can lag. This page does not contain an outlay total. Cite obligations when you quote {n['obl']}. Agency names live on Maine federal spending, not inside the FEC roster.

Democratic-majority receipts on 282 committees

Democratic committees reported $33.0 million (71.3% of $46.3 million). Republican committees reported $13.2 million (28.6%). Other filers reported $69,734 (0.2%). 282 federal candidate committees tagged to Maine sit behind those lines, including residual filers. A 71.3% receipt share is not a share of 54,350 awards.

Party codes travel with candidate committees. USAspending rows here have no Democratic flag. State races file with Maine’s state system and sit outside the FEC total. Do not paint obligation dollars with FEC colors.

Portland versus the rest of Maine is not a packet geography

This packet does not split $93,098,204,945 or $46.3 million between southern Maine and the rest of the state. 54,350 awards and 282 committees are statewide. A regional cut would be a different extract. Independent expenditures about Maine candidates can be paid from elsewhere and sit in neither total.

Do not divide $93,098,204,945 by $46.3 million and call the result a return on donations. The units are unlike. Population, contractor density, and federal program mix move the spending ledger without touching a campaign account. Correlation is not causation.

Maine citation block

USAspending.gov: $93,098,204,945; 54,350 awards. FEC.gov: $46.3 million; 282 committees; Democratic $33.0 million; Republican $13.2 million; other $69,734. Two sentences. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

282 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 54,350 is an action count, not unique vendors. State-office campaigns file under Maine law and sit outside the FEC extract. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside the obligation total.

A large receipt book is not a large award overlay

$46.3 million is large relative to Maine’s award-row count, not relative to $93,098,204,945. Keep that contrast labeled as two reporting systems. Shipyard names belong on Maine federal spending if they appear as recipients; they do not belong on the FEC sentence.

A later ingest can restate the obligation total without touching receipts, and a later FEC file can restate receipts without touching awards. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. All spending ties does not publish a blended Maine federal-money figure. Do not rank Maine as more connected because receipts look large beside a modest action count. Portland names belong on Maine federal spending if they appear as place-of-performance rows; they do not belong on the FEC sentence.

Shipyard talking points are not packet NAICS. Keep Maine’s modest award-action count labeled as a record count, not a unique-vendor census. A researcher who wants both pictures keeps two tabs and does not add the totals.

Questions

Do Maine campaign donations fund federal awards in the state?

No. FEC receipts of $46.3 million and USAspending obligations of $93,098,204,945 are joined only by the ME code. 282 candidate committees and 54,350 awards are different filers. Donations do not become obligations on this page.

How much has USAspending recorded for Maine?

USAspending.gov lists $93,098,204,945 in obligations across 54,350 awards coded to Maine. That is a commitment aggregate, not an outlay clock and not FEC operating expenditure. Maine federal spending holds the agency rows. Original filings remain on the source sites.

How much have Maine federal candidates raised?

FEC.gov aggregates show $46.3 million across 282 committees. Democratic filers reported $33.0 million (71.3%). Republican filers reported $13.2 million (28.6%). Those shares do not describe USAspending awards. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where are Maine’s spending and FEC hubs?

Maine federal spending on SpendingVault is the USAspending hub. Maine FEC totals on LobbyVault is the candidate-receipt hub. All spending ties lists sibling joins. Keep each total on its own source sentence. Original filings remain on the source sites.