New York campaign finance next to federal obligations

New York’s obligation book beside its receipt book

SpendingVault’s New York extract is $925,028,485,949.52 and 785,502 awards. LobbyVault’s New York extract is $214,177,115.59 and 2,418 candidate committees. Award count here (785,502) is lower than several states with smaller obligation totals in this join family — a reminder that row volume and dollar volume are not the same ranking. FEC receipts of $214,177,115.59 are high relative to many states even while obligations sit below the trillion-dollar extracts for California and Texas.

Those comparisons are still two ledgers. Open New York federal spending for awards. Open New York FEC totals for receipts. All spending ties lists other pairs. A shared NY code is not a funding path.

USAspending.gov obligations in New York

The $925,028,485,949.52 total is obligations, not outlays. Agencies record a legal promise to pay. Repeat awards and modifications increment the 785,502-row count. This packet has no unique-recipient total.

New York federal spending remains the place to slice by agency and program. Those slices do not include FEC donor names.

FEC.gov receipts with a Democratic-committee majority

New York candidate receipts are $214,177,115.59 from 2,418 committees. Democratic committees reported $165,057,118.23 (about 77.1%). Republican committees reported $48,670,450.02 (about 22.7%). Other and unaffiliated filers reported $449,547.34 (about 0.2%). About 77.1% is a share of campaign receipts, not a share of $925,028,485,949.52 in awards.

2,418 is a committee filing count. It is not Albany’s state-office roster and not a contractor headcount. Party codes stay on the FEC side of the join.

A 77% receipt share cannot label awards

Printing “77% Democratic” next to New York federal spending would attach a candidate-committee statistic to an award file that has no party field in this packet. Do not. The 785,502 awards are agency actions. The $214,177,115.59 is committee receipts.

Adding the two dollar figures invents a combined total. Subtracting receipts from obligations pretends campaigns sit inside USAspending. Different statutes, different filers. Correlation is not causation.

Limits of the New York join

State Assembly and Senate campaigns file under New York law and never enter $214,177,115.59. City procurement in New York City is outside USAspending.gov. Independent expenditures are not extra packet facts. Cite USAspending.gov for $925,028,485,949.52 and 785,502 awards. Cite FEC.gov for $214,177,115.59, 2,418 committees, Democratic $165,057,118.23, Republican $48,670,450.02, other $449,547.34.

Live tables: New York federal spending and New York FEC totals. All spending ties is the index, not a third checkbook.

Albany filings and city contracts are not this New York join

New York State Assembly, Senate, and statewide campaigns file under New York law. Those reports never enter $214,177,115.59. New York City procurement is outside USAspending.gov. The 785,502 federal award rows are agency actions tagged to NY on USAspending.gov, not a city-budget extract. Mixing a mayoral contract into $925,028,485,949.52 is a category error this page does not make.

Independent expenditures that mention a New York federal candidate can be paid by a committee that files elsewhere. Those schedules are not inside $214,177,115.59 and are not inside 785,502 awards. The Democratic receipt share of about 77.1% ($165,057,118.23) and the Republican share of about 22.7% ($48,670,450.02) attach only to candidate committees. Awards have no party field in this packet.

A clean footnote names both sources: USAspending.gov obligations of $925,028,485,949.52 across 785,502 awards, and FEC.gov receipts of $214,177,115.59 across 2,418 committees. Other and unaffiliated filers reported $449,547.34 (about 0.2%). New York federal spending and New York FEC totals are the live tables. All spending ties is the index. Donations do not fund the obligations.

Questions

Do New York campaign donations pay for federal awards?

No. USAspending obligations of $925,028,485,949.52 and FEC receipts of $214,177,115.59 are different datasets joined only by state. Agencies record 785,502 awards as obligations. A shared NY code is not a funding path.

How much federal spending is obligated in New York?

USAspending.gov records indexed here show $925,028,485,949.52 in obligations across 785,502 awards tagged to New York. That figure is an obligation total, not an outlay series and not an FEC receipt total.

How much have New York federal candidates raised?

FEC.gov aggregates show $214,177,115.59 in candidate receipts across 2,418 federal committees tagged to New York. Democratic filers reported $165,057,118.23 (about 77.1%). Republican filers reported $48,670,450.02 (about 22.7%). That split does not describe awards.

Does the Democratic receipt share apply to New York contracts?

No. About 77.1% is a share of FEC candidate-committee receipts only. This packet has no party field on the 785,502 USAspending awards.