Minnesota campaign finance next to federal obligations

Minnesota’s two extracts, one unusual receipt mix

Obligations of $618,825,177,975.61 and 462,800 awards sit on USAspending.gov. Receipts of $57,945,553.92 and 905 candidate committees sit on FEC.gov. Most states in this join family show Democratic and Republican committees dominating receipts, with a thin other line. Minnesota’s other line is $19,815,603.92. That is a filing-code fact on candidate committees, including third-party and unaffiliated filers as the FEC coded them. It is not a vendor category on awards.

Open Minnesota federal spending for the obligation table. Open Minnesota FEC totals for receipts. All spending ties lists other pairs. MN is a shared geography code, not a payment path.

USAspending.gov in Minnesota

The $618,825,177,975.61 total is obligations, not outlays. The 462,800 rows are award actions. Repeat recipients add rows. This packet has no unique-vendor count and no party field on awards.

Minnesota federal spending slices by agency and program. Those slices still will not contain FEC contributor names.

FEC.gov: Republican, other, then Democratic

Minnesota candidate receipts are $57,945,553.92 from 905 committees. Republican committees reported $26,259,226.89 (about 45.3%). Other and unaffiliated filers reported $19,815,603.92 (about 34.2%). Democratic committees reported $11,870,723.11 (about 20.5%). Read that order as a committee-receipt ranking, not as a ranking of who received federal awards.

905 is a filing count. It includes primary challengers and residual committees. Party and other codes describe the candidate committee, not the people who wrote checks and not USAspending recipients.

A 34% other share cannot label 462,800 awards

About 34.2% other is striking on the FEC side and still unusable on the spending side. Awards in this packet have no party or other-affiliation field. Printing “34% independent federal spending” would invent a statistic.

Adding $57,945,553.92 to $618,825,177,975.61 invents a combined total. Subtracting receipts from obligations pretends campaigns are an award line. Different statutes, different filers. Correlation is not causation.

Citing Minnesota without mixing ledgers

Name USAspending.gov for $618,825,177,975.61 and 462,800 awards. Name FEC.gov for $57,945,553.92, 905 committees, Republican $26,259,226.89, other $19,815,603.92, Democratic $11,870,723.11. St. Paul state-office campaigns file under Minnesota law and never enter either extract.

Independent-expenditure schedules are not extra packet facts. Live hubs: Minnesota federal spending and Minnesota FEC totals. All spending ties is the join index.

What the Minnesota other-party line is not

Other and unaffiliated committees reported $19,815,603.92, about 34.2% of $57,945,553.92. That line is FEC candidate-committee coding: third-party and unaffiliated filers as the Commission stored them. It is not a vendor category, not an independent-expenditure total, and not a share of 462,800 awards. Printing “34% independent federal spending” invents a statistic this packet does not contain.

Minnesota state-office campaigns file under Minnesota law and never enter either extract. Local procurement is outside USAspending.gov. Independent expenditures are not extra packet facts. Republican $26,259,226.89 (about 45.3%) and Democratic $11,870,723.11 (about 20.5%) remain receipt shares among 905 committees.

Cite USAspending.gov for $618,825,177,975.61 and 462,800 awards. Cite FEC.gov for $57,945,553.92, 905 committees, and the three-way split. Minnesota federal spending and Minnesota FEC totals are the live hubs. All spending ties is the join index. Donations do not fund the obligations.

When committees amend, $19,815,603.92 other, $26,259,226.89 Republican, and $11,870,723.11 Democratic will move inside $57,945,553.92. Those amendments do not rewrite 462,800 USAspending rows or $618,825,177,975.61. Keep the other-party line attached only to FEC.gov. Minnesota federal spending and Minnesota FEC totals are the live tables. All spending ties is the join index.

Questions

Do Minnesota campaign donations pay for federal awards?

No. USAspending obligations of $618,825,177,975.61 and FEC receipts of $57,945,553.92 are different datasets joined only by state. Agencies record 462,800 awards as obligations. A shared MN code is not a funding path.

How much federal spending is obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov records indexed here show $618,825,177,975.61 in obligations across 462,800 awards tagged to Minnesota. That figure is an obligation total, not an outlay series and not an FEC receipt total.

How much have Minnesota federal candidates raised?

FEC.gov aggregates show $57,945,553.92 in candidate receipts across 905 federal committees tagged to Minnesota. Republican filers reported $26,259,226.89 (about 45.3%). Other filers reported $19,815,603.92 (about 34.2%). Democratic filers reported $11,870,723.11 (about 20.5%). That mix does not describe awards.

Does Minnesota’s large other-party receipt share apply to contracts?

No. About 34.2% other is a share of FEC candidate-committee receipts only. This packet has no party or other-affiliation field on the 462,800 USAspending awards.