Rhode Island federal obligations beside FEC fundraising

RI is a join key, not a Navy-PAC pipeline

SpendingVault indexes $49,734,637,733 in Rhode Island obligations. LobbyVault indexes $8.6 million in Rhode Island candidate receipts. Navy and health-award stories are reasons a researcher might open both tables. They are not fields in this packet and they do not connect a contribution to an award ID. The relationship is the RI abbreviation shared by 33,888 award actions and 230 candidate committees.

$49.7 billion in commitments is not a restatement of $8.6 million in receipts. Obligations are agency promises to pay. Receipts are campaign-committee bookings. Adding them invents a Rhode Island federal-money headline no source published.

Open Rhode Island federal spending for the award table and Rhode Island FEC totals for the candidate table. Keep each dollar on the sentence that names its statute.

A modest award book with a modest filing roster

33,888 award actions sit beside 230 candidate committees. Those integers are not comparable headcounts. Award count includes modifications and repeat actions. Filing count includes residual and long-shot committees. Mean obligation per award is about $1,467,618 if you divide $49,734,637,733 by 33,888 — a calculator output, not a typical Navy line.

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

Democratic-majority receipts and a zero other line

Democratic committees reported $7.3 million (84.6% of $8.6 million). Republican committees reported $1.3 million (15.4%). Other filers reported $0.00 in this extract. 230 federal candidate committees tagged to Rhode Island sit behind those lines. An 84.6% receipt share is not a share of $49,734,637,733. A zero other line is not a claim that no independent candidates exist outside this file.

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

What not to compute from the Rhode Island pair

Do not divide $49,734,637,733 by $8.6 million and call the result a return on donations. The units are unlike. Do not divide 33,888 by 230 and call the result awards per campaign. Population, contractor density, and the number of federal programs all move the spending ledger without touching a campaign account.

Providence versus the rest of the state is not in this packet. Both totals are statewide. A county cut would be a different file. Correlation is not causation. This join exists so the series can be read side by side with the caveat attached.

Rhode Island citation lines

USAspending.gov obligations: $49,734,637,733 across 33,888 awards. FEC.gov candidate receipts: $8.6 million across 230 committees (Democratic $7.3 million, Republican $1.3 million, other $0.00). Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

230 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 33,888 is an action count, not unique vendors. State-office campaigns file under Rhode Island law and sit outside the FEC extract. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside the obligation extract.

Navy headlines are not packet NAICS

Base talking points are why some readers open Rhode Island’s pair. They are not packet fields. The facts remain $49,734,637,733, 33,888 awards, $8.6 million, and 230 committees. A headline that folds those series into one ‘federal money in Rhode Island’ 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. Rhode Island federal spending and Rhode Island FEC totals are the live tables. All spending ties does not hide a blended total. Do not rank Rhode Island as more connected because receipts sit beside obligations. Influence is not a field in this packet.

Keep Rhode Island’s obligation total labeled as commitments, not outlays. A researcher who wants both pictures keeps two tabs and does not add the totals. Providence is not a third ledger in this extract.

Questions

Do Rhode Island campaign donations fund federal awards in the state?

No. FEC receipts of $8.6 million and USAspending obligations of $49,734,637,733 are joined only by the RI state code. 230 candidate committees and 33,888 awards are different filers on different forms. Donations do not become obligations on this page.

How much has USAspending recorded for Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov lists $49,734,637,733 in obligations across 33,888 awards coded to Rhode Island. That is a commitment aggregate, not an outlay clock and not FEC operating expenditure. Rhode Island federal spending holds the agency rows. Original filings remain on the source sites.

How Democratic is Rhode Island’s federal candidate fundraising?

Democratic committees reported $7.3 million, or 84.6% of $8.6 million. Republican committees reported $1.3 million (15.4%). Other filers reported $0.00 in this extract. Those percentages describe 230 committees, not USAspending recipients. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where do I open Rhode Island’s two tables?

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