H.R. 5325 — Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2017 (P.L. 114-223)
Official title: Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act
What the tracked text contains
Of the money itself: $196.3B across 32 tracked line-items — veterans ($187.7B, 96%), defense ($5.5B, 3%) and transportation ($1.4B, 1%) lead; 3 smaller categories carry the rest. The largest single line: $90,119,449,000 for Compensation and pension benefits paid to or on behalf of veterans, plus burial benefits and related payments under title 38 - advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017. Beyond the cash, the text also sets $2.0B of authorizations (a ceiling on future spending), $2.1B of set-asides (already counted above) and $13.3B of revenue & offsets (pay-fors) — disclosed beside the total, never summed into it. The dated money runs fiscal 2016–2018 — 35% of tracked dollars carry a year in the text.
114th Congress · Enrolled (enacted, Public Law) · Rep. Tom Graves [R-GA-14] · signed into law Sept. 29, 2016 · read the full bill text →
Where the money goes
$196.3B across 32 tracked items · compare against another law →The largest verified line-items. This pie breaks down the biggest spending items in the bill — appropriations and mandatory (direct) spending — by category. Every dollar is quoted from the text; click any slice to read them. It is not necessarily every dollar in the bill, and the gaps are not always small ones — where an account was left out, How this was built at the foot of this page says so and why, and a large omission can change which category ranks first. Figures that aren’t spending — authorizations, guarantee ceilings, pay-fors, and carve-outs already counted — are deliberately left out and disclosed below.
The money map
blocks sized by dollars — open one for the law’s own wordsArea is dollars. Each block is one category of tracked spending in H.R. 5325, sized by its share of the $196.3B this page tracks. Open a block and it lists the line-items inside it, each with the passage of the enacted text that carries the dollar figure, quoted word for word, and the section it sits in. Category names are the extraction’s own labels, printed as they come — nothing here calls a category worthwhile or wasteful. The quote is the argument.
This map divides the same tracked total the pie above divides — money the text writes as exact dollar lines. It is not the bill’s total fiscal effect: what the extraction leaves out is stated above the pie and in How this was built at the foot of this page, and the dollars deliberately kept out of the count are listed under the map.
5 of the 6 blocks are too small to carry a label without overprinting themselves, so they are drawn blank — every category is named, with its figures, in the rows and the table below.
veterans$187.7B
$187,728,758,000 · 96% of the $196,262,290,000 this page tracks · 16 tracked line-items, largest first
- Compensation and pension benefits paid to or on behalf of veterans, plus burial benefits and related payments under title 38 - advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017$90,119,449,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…chapters 23, 51, 53, 55, and 61 of title 38, United States Code, $90,119,449,000…”
Division A, Title II - Department of Veterans Affairs; account: Compensation and pensions - VA Medical Services - advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017 for inpatient and outpatient care of veterans$44,886,554,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…and, in addition, $44,886,554,000, plus reimbursements, shall become available on October 1, 2017…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical services (fiscal year 2018 advance) - Readjustment and rehabilitation benefits for veterans under chapters 21, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 51, 53, 55 and 61 of title 38 - advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017 (gloss, not the text's words: chapter 33 is the Post-9/11 GI Bill)$13,708,648,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…55, and 61 of title 38, United States Code, $13,708,648,000, to remain available until expended…”
Division A, Title II; account: Readjustment benefits - VA Medical Community Care - health care for veterans at non-Department facilities, advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017$9,409,118,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…and, in addition, $9,409,118,000 shall become available on October 1, 2017…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical community care (fiscal year 2018 advance) - VA Medical Community Care for fiscal year 2017 - necessary expenses for furnishing health care to individuals at non-Department facilities under chapter 17 of title 38 (analyst note: sec. 217 of the same title rescinds an identical $7,246,181,000 from Medical Services)$7,246,181,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…at non-Department facilities, $7,246,181,000, plus reimbursements…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical community care (fiscal year 2017) - VA Medical Support and Compliance - administration of medical, hospital and nursing home activities, advance appropriation for October 1, 2017$6,654,480,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…Federal Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651 et seq.), $6,654,480,000…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical support and compliance - VA Medical Facilities - maintenance and operation of VA hospitals, nursing homes and domiciliary facilities, advance appropriation for October 1, 2017$5,434,880,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…and, in addition, $5,434,880,000, plus reimbursements, shall become available on October 1, 2017…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical facilities (fiscal year 2018 advance) - VA Information Technology Systems - IT and telecommunications support, pay, and capital acquisition of information technology$4,278,259,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, $4,278,259,000, plus reimbursements…”
Division A, Title II; account: Information technology systems - Necessary operating expenses of the Veterans Benefits Administration not otherwise provided for, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, reimbursement of GSA for security guard services, and reimbursement of DoD for overseas employee mail$2,856,160,000→ Veterans Benefits Administration
“…reimbursement of the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail, $2,856,160,000…”
Division A, Title II; account: General operating expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration - VA Medical Services, fiscal year 2017 portion - inpatient and outpatient care and treatment for VA beneficiaries, in addition to funds previously appropriated that become available October 1, 2016$1,078,993,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…medical services authorized by section 1787 of title 38, United States Code; $1,078,993,000, which shall be in addition to funds previously appropriated…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical services (fiscal year 2017 portion) - VA medical and prosthetic research and development programs authorized by chapter 73 of title 38$675,366,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…as authorized by chapter 73 of title 38, United States Code, $675,366,000, plus reimbursements…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical and prosthetic research - VA Construction, Major Projects - constructing, altering, extending and improving VA facilities where the estimated project cost exceeds the section 8104(a)(3)(A) threshold$528,110,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…made available in a previous major project appropriation, $528,110,000, of which $478,110,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2021…”
Division A, Title II; account: Construction, major projects - VA Construction, Minor Projects - constructing, altering, extending and improving VA facilities where the estimated project cost is at or below the section 8104(a)(3)(A) threshold$372,069,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…section 8104(a)(3)(A) of title 38, United States Code, $372,069,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021…”
Division A, Title II; account: Construction, minor projects - VA General Administration - necessary operating expenses of the Department of Veterans Affairs not otherwise provided for, including Department-wide capital planning, management and policy activities$345,391,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services, $345,391,000…”
Division A, Title II; account: Departmental administration, General administration - Maintenance, operation and improvement of Arlington National Cemetery and the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery$70,800,000→ Arlington National Cemetery and Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery
“…not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation expenses, $70,800,000…”
Division A, Title III; account: Department of defense-Civil, Cemeterial expenses, Army - Operation and maintenance of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, DC and Gulfport, Mississippi, paid from the AFRH Trust Fund$64,300,000→ Armed Forces Retirement Home (Washington, District of Columbia, and Gulfport, Mississippi)
“…available in the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund, $64,300,000…”
Division A, Title III; account: Armed forces retirement home, Trust fund
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
defense$5.5B
$5,544,863,000 · 3% of the $196,262,290,000 this page tracks · 7 tracked line-items, largest first
- Military construction, defense-wide: public works, installations and real property for DoD agencies other than the military departments$2,025,444,000
“…as currently authorized by law, $2,025,444,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021…”
Division A, Title I - Department of Defense; account: Military construction, defense-wide - Military construction, Air Force: acquisition, construction and equipment of Air Force installations and real property$1,491,058,000
“…real property for the Air Force as currently authorized by law, $1,491,058,000…”
Division A, Title I - Department of Defense; account: Military construction, air force - Military construction, Navy and Marine Corps: naval installations, facilities and real property$1,021,580,000
“…personal services necessary for the purposes of this appropriation, $1,021,580,000…”
Division A, Title I - Department of Defense; account: Military construction, navy and marine corps - Military construction, Army: Army installations, facilities, and facilities supporting the functions of the Commander in Chief$513,459,000
“…in support of the functions of the Commander in Chief, $513,459,000…”
Division A, Title I - Department of Defense; account: Military construction, army - Additional military construction for Navy and Marine Corps projects drawn from the service's fiscal year 2017 unfunded priority list$227,099,000→ Navy and Marine Corps
“…Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps, $227,099,000…”
Division A, Title I, sec. 125 - additional amounts for unfunded priority list projects - United States share of the NATO Security Investment Program (military facilities for the collective defense of the North Atlantic Treaty Area)$177,932,000→ North Atlantic Treaty Organization
“…and Military Construction Authorization Acts, $177,932,000, to remain available until expended…”
Division A, Title I; account: North Atlantic Treaty Organization security investment program - Additional Military Construction, Air Force for projects outside the United States, designated for Overseas Contingency Operations$88,291,000→ U.S. Air Force (overseas)
“…For an additional amount for Military Construction, Air Force $88,291,000…”
Division A, Title IV - Overseas Contingency Operations; account: Military construction, air force
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
transportation$1.4B
$1,390,000,000 · 1% of the $196,262,290,000 this page tracks · 2 tracked line-items, largest first
- National Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, provided under the CR at an annualized rate for operations - the CR ran only through December 9, 2016, so the budget authority actually released is a fraction of this figure$1,155,000,000→ National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
“…National Railroad Passenger Corporation at a rate for operations of $1,155,000,000…”
Division C, sec. 143(b) - Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration - Northeast Corridor Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, provided under the CR at an annualized rate for operations - the CR ran only through December 9, 2016, so the budget authority actually released is a fraction of this figure$235,000,000→ National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
“…National Railroad Passenger Corporation at a rate for operations of $235,000,000…”
Division C, sec. 143(b) - Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
health$1.1B
$1,078,500,000 · 1% of the $196,262,290,000 this page tracks · 4 tracked line-items, largest first
- CDC-Wide Activities and Program Support to prevent, prepare for and respond to Zika virus and other vector-borne diseases (emergency-designated)$394,000,000→ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“…for CDC-Wide Activities and Program Support, $394,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017…”
Division B, Title I - Department of Health and Human Services; account: CDC-wide activities and program support - Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for Zika countermeasures, vaccines, diagnostics and medical supplies (emergency-designated)$387,000,000→ HHS Office of the Secretary
“…for Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, $387,000,000…”
Division B, Title I; account: Public health and social services emergency fund - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases research on Zika virology, vaccines and medical countermeasures (emergency-designated)$152,000,000→ National Institutes of Health
“…for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $152,000,000…”
Division B, Title I; account: National institute of allergy and infectious diseases - Global Health Programs - necessary expenses to prevent, prepare for and respond to the Zika virus and other vector-borne diseases, made available for vector control activities, vaccines, diagnostics and vector control technologies (emergency-designated)$145,500,000→ Bilateral Economic Assistance, Global Health Programs (Funds Appropriated to the President; administered by USAID)
“…For an additional amount for fiscal year 2016 for Global Health Programs, $145,500,000…”
Division B, Title II; account: Bilateral economic assistance, Global health programs
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
community & regional development$500.0M
$500,000,000 · 0.3% of the $196,262,290,000 this page tracks · 1 tracked line-item, largest first
- Community Development Fund - disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, and economic revitalization in the most impacted and distressed areas resulting from a major disaster declared in 2016 (gloss, not the text's words: title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 is the CDBG program)$500,000,000→ State or unit of general local government, at the discretion of the Secretary
“…Community Development Fund, there is appropriated $500,000,000 for an additional amount for fiscal year 2016…”
Division C, sec. 145(a) - Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Fund
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
other$20.2M
$20,169,000 · 0.0% of the $196,262,290,000 this page tracks · 2 tracked line-items, largest first
- Federal Payment for Emergency Planning and Security Costs in the District of Columbia for costs associated with the Presidential Inauguration, at an annualized rate for operations under the CR (the text names no year)$19,995,000→ District of Columbia
“…costs associated with the Presidential Inauguration, at a rate for operations of $19,995,000…”
Division C, sec. 127 - Payment to Sami A. Takai, widow of Kyle Mark Takai, late a Representative from the State of Hawaii$174,000→ Sami A. Takai
“…late a Representative from the State of Hawaii, $174,000…”
Division C, sec. 142
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
- Authorizations (a ceiling on future spending) · 6 tracked items$2.0B
- Set-asides (already counted above) · 3 tracked items$2.1B
- Revenue & offsets (pay-fors) · 4 tracked items$13.3B
None of these are added to the map. They are ceilings, borrowing limits, carve-outs of dollars already counted inside a block above, or pay-fors — summing them into the map would count the same money twice and draw permission to spend as spending. Each is itemized further down this page.
| Category | Tracked dollars | Share of $196,262,290,000 | Line-items |
|---|---|---|---|
| veterans | $187,728,758,000 | 96% | 16 |
| defense | $5,544,863,000 | 3% | 7 |
| transportation | $1,390,000,000 | 1% | 2 |
| health | $1,078,500,000 | 1% | 4 |
| community & regional development | $500,000,000 | 0.3% | 1 |
| other | $20,169,000 | 0.0% | 2 |
| Tracked total | $196,262,290,000 | 100% | 32 |
What’s in this bill
every mechanism we could extract, at one scaleA law can move money four different ways, and only one of them is cash. This compares what H.R. 5325 actually spends against what it authorizes, caps, guarantees or pays for. Every bar is a sample. Each one sums the tracked line-items in that mechanism — the largest figures that appear in the text as an exact dollar string — so a bar is a floor, not a mechanism total, and on some laws it is a small fraction of one. Each bar carries its item count and, where the items carry years, the span it covers and where those years came from.
These bars are not added together. Only the top bar is money leaving the Treasury. The rest are ceilings, borrowing limits, carve-outs of money already counted above, or pay-fors — summing them would count the same dollars twice and treat permission to spend as spending. How this was built says what each extraction left out.
What CBO says it does to the deficit
verified estimate, quoted with its basisNo verified CBO estimate is on file for this bill yet — the gap is stated here rather than filled from memory or news coverage.
The terms on this page, in plain English
What these things actually are — and what this bill does to each of them. Written for readers, not staffers; every figure in the “in this bill” lines appears elsewhere on this page.
Authorization (“authorized to be appropriated”)
Permission, not money. “There is authorized to be appropriated $X” sets a ceiling on what a future spending bill may provide — and if that later bill never passes, not a dollar moves. Much of a landmark law's famous headline number is this kind of permission, which is why this site never adds it to the spending total.
Mandatory vs. discretionary spending
Discretionary money must be re-approved every year in appropriations bills — if Congress does nothing, it stops. Mandatory (also called direct) spending is written into permanent law and flows automatically until Congress changes the law itself. Benefit programs mostly work the mandatory way, which is why they don't show up in the yearly funding fights.
Rescission
Taking back money Congress previously provided that hasn't been spent yet. It reduces spending on paper; how much it saves in practice depends on whether the money was ever going out the door.
Advance appropriation
Money approved now for a future year. Used above all for veterans' benefits and care, so that a government shutdown or a late budget can never interrupt disability checks or hospital operations — the money for next year is already law.
Set-aside (carve-out)
A floor inside money already counted: “of the amounts above, at least $X shall go to Y.” It steers the money rather than adding to it — counting a carve-out again would double-count — so it is disclosed beside the total, never summed into it.
Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8)
Rent help for low-income tenants: the household pays roughly a third of its income, the voucher covers the rest up to a local cap. Unlike SNAP it is not an entitlement — when the year's money runs out, waiting lists grow. That is why this annual number decides how many families are actually helped.
When the money is for
fiscal years the tracked line-items carry7 of 32 tracked line-items carry a fiscal year — 2 named in the quoted text, 5 taken from the account heading the line is cited to, which is a hand-written annotation rather than a string-checked quote — 35% of the tracked dollars. The no year column is money the text appropriates without naming a year in the quoted passage; it is shown so the dated columns aren’t mistaken for the whole schedule.
How they voted
| For | Against | Abstained | Did not vote | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | 127 84% | 24 16% | — | — | 151 |
| Democrats | 79 98% | 2 2% | — | — | 81 |
| Republicans | 48 69% | 22 31% | — | — | 70 |
| Senate | 49 75% | 14 22% | — | 2 3% | 65 |
| Democrats | 23 74% | 7 23% | — | 1 3% | 31 |
| Republicans | 25 78% | 7 22% | — | — | 32 |
| Independents | 1 50% | — | — | 1 50% | 2 |
“Did not vote” is not the same as “absent.” The record distinguishes Present — there, and formally declining to take a side — from Not Voting, where no vote was cast. That is usually absence, but the roll call does not say so, so this table does not either.
Did not vote (2): Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Tim Kaine (D-VA).
A member is recorded as not voting for many ordinary reasons — illness, a death in the family, official travel, or a paired vote arranged with a colleague on the other side. The roll call gives no reason, so neither does this page, and nothing here is counted against anyone’s grade. This site tracks a small number of major bills, so a single absence is a large share of what is shown here and a very small share of the hundreds of votes a member actually casts.
These tallies count the 216 members sitting today who have a recorded position, not the historical result. Several of these bills passed in earlier Congresses, and members who have since left are not in the roster — so the totals here are smaller than the 435 + 100 that voted at the time. Where both chambers held a recorded vote, a member is grouped by the chamber they sit in now; anyone who has switched chambers since then appears in their current row.
Authorizations (a ceiling on future spending) — $2.0B
“There are authorized to be appropriated $X” sets a CAP on what a future appropriations bill may provide — it is permission, not money. Much of a landmark law’s headline figure is this. It is disclosed here, never summed into the pie, because the cash only exists if a later bill actually appropriates it.
- Authorization of appropriations for eight named VA major medical facility projects (ceiling on future appropriations, not money provided by this Act)$1.1B
- Seismic corrections to the mental health and community living center in Long Beach, California (project ceiling inside the sec. 259 authorization)$287.1M
- Realignment of VA medical facilities in Livermore, California (project ceiling inside the sec. 259 authorization)$194.4M
- Seismic retrofitting and replacement of high-risk VA buildings in San Francisco, California (project ceiling inside the sec. 259 authorization)$180.5M
- Construction of a VA medical center in Louisville, Kentucky (project ceiling inside the sec. 259 authorization)$150.0M
- Construction of a replacement community living center in Perry Point, Maryland (project ceiling inside the sec. 259 authorization)$92.7M
Set-asides (already counted above) — $2.1B
A carve-out or reservation WITHIN a larger line-item already in the pie (e.g. a share of a fund reserved for a specific use). Shown for detail but NOT summed in — its dollars are part of the parent, and counting both would double-count.
- Portion of fiscal year 2017 Medical Community Care held available until September 30, 2020$2.0BFY2017, from the account heading · available until FY2020
- Minimum share of the Zika health-care reimbursement money reserved for the territories with the highest rates of Zika transmission$60.0M
- Expansion of the delivery of primary health services authorized by section 330 of the PHS Act in Puerto Rico and other territories (gloss, not the text's words: PHS Act sec. 330 is the community health center program)$40.0M
Revenue & offsets (pay-fors) — $13.3B
Tax changes, rescissions and other provisions that RAISE or save money rather than spend it. Not spending — disclosed so the law’s cost is not overstated by ignoring how it was paid for.
- Rescission of the fiscal year 2017 VA Medical Services advance appropriation made by P.L. 114-113, offsetting the new Medical Community Care account$7.2B
- Rescission of funds made available for the purposes of carrying out section 2105(a)(3) of the Social Security Act (gloss, not the text's words: title XXI of the Social Security Act is the Children's Health Insurance Program)$5.7B
- Rescission of prior-year unobligated Military Construction, Defense-Wide balances (including Missile Defense Agency planning and design)$171.6M
- Rescission of unobligated amounts made available under section 1323(c)(1) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (gloss, not the text's words: ACA sec. 1323 concerns territories that establish Exchanges; the enacted text names no recipient)$168.1M
Every tracked dollar, cited
32 spending line-items · 7 carry a fiscal yearveterans$187.7B · 96%
- Compensation and pension benefits paid to or on behalf of veterans, plus burial benefits and related payments under title 38 - advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017$90,119,449,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…chapters 23, 51, 53, 55, and 61 of title 38, United States Code, $90,119,449,000…”
Division A, Title II - Department of Veterans Affairs; account: Compensation and pensions - VA Medical Services - advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017 for inpatient and outpatient care of veterans$44,886,554,000FY2018, from the account heading→ Veterans Health Administration
“…and, in addition, $44,886,554,000, plus reimbursements, shall become available on October 1, 2017…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical services (fiscal year 2018 advance) - Readjustment and rehabilitation benefits for veterans under chapters 21, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 51, 53, 55 and 61 of title 38 - advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017 (gloss, not the text's words: chapter 33 is the Post-9/11 GI Bill)$13,708,648,000available until expended→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…55, and 61 of title 38, United States Code, $13,708,648,000, to remain available until expended…”
Division A, Title II; account: Readjustment benefits - VA Medical Community Care - health care for veterans at non-Department facilities, advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2017$9,409,118,000FY2018, from the account heading→ Veterans Health Administration
“…and, in addition, $9,409,118,000 shall become available on October 1, 2017…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical community care (fiscal year 2018 advance) - VA Medical Community Care for fiscal year 2017 - necessary expenses for furnishing health care to individuals at non-Department facilities under chapter 17 of title 38 (analyst note: sec. 217 of the same title rescinds an identical $7,246,181,000 from Medical Services)$7,246,181,000FY2017, from the account heading→ Veterans Health Administration
“…at non-Department facilities, $7,246,181,000, plus reimbursements…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical community care (fiscal year 2017) - VA Medical Support and Compliance - administration of medical, hospital and nursing home activities, advance appropriation for October 1, 2017$6,654,480,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…Federal Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651 et seq.), $6,654,480,000…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical support and compliance - VA Medical Facilities - maintenance and operation of VA hospitals, nursing homes and domiciliary facilities, advance appropriation for October 1, 2017$5,434,880,000FY2018, from the account heading→ Veterans Health Administration
“…and, in addition, $5,434,880,000, plus reimbursements, shall become available on October 1, 2017…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical facilities (fiscal year 2018 advance) - VA Information Technology Systems - IT and telecommunications support, pay, and capital acquisition of information technology$4,278,259,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, $4,278,259,000, plus reimbursements…”
Division A, Title II; account: Information technology systems - Necessary operating expenses of the Veterans Benefits Administration not otherwise provided for, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, reimbursement of GSA for security guard services, and reimbursement of DoD for overseas employee mail$2,856,160,000→ Veterans Benefits Administration
“…reimbursement of the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail, $2,856,160,000…”
Division A, Title II; account: General operating expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration - VA Medical Services, fiscal year 2017 portion - inpatient and outpatient care and treatment for VA beneficiaries, in addition to funds previously appropriated that become available October 1, 2016$1,078,993,000FY2017, from the account heading→ Veterans Health Administration
“…medical services authorized by section 1787 of title 38, United States Code; $1,078,993,000, which shall be in addition to funds previously appropriated…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical services (fiscal year 2017 portion) - VA medical and prosthetic research and development programs authorized by chapter 73 of title 38$675,366,000→ Veterans Health Administration
“…as authorized by chapter 73 of title 38, United States Code, $675,366,000, plus reimbursements…”
Division A, Title II; account: Medical and prosthetic research - VA Construction, Major Projects - constructing, altering, extending and improving VA facilities where the estimated project cost exceeds the section 8104(a)(3)(A) threshold$528,110,000available until FY2021→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…made available in a previous major project appropriation, $528,110,000, of which $478,110,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2021…”
Division A, Title II; account: Construction, major projects - VA Construction, Minor Projects - constructing, altering, extending and improving VA facilities where the estimated project cost is at or below the section 8104(a)(3)(A) threshold$372,069,000available until FY2021→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…section 8104(a)(3)(A) of title 38, United States Code, $372,069,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021…”
Division A, Title II; account: Construction, minor projects - VA General Administration - necessary operating expenses of the Department of Veterans Affairs not otherwise provided for, including Department-wide capital planning, management and policy activities$345,391,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services, $345,391,000…”
Division A, Title II; account: Departmental administration, General administration - Maintenance, operation and improvement of Arlington National Cemetery and the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery$70,800,000→ Arlington National Cemetery and Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery
“…not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation expenses, $70,800,000…”
Division A, Title III; account: Department of defense-Civil, Cemeterial expenses, Army - Operation and maintenance of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, DC and Gulfport, Mississippi, paid from the AFRH Trust Fund$64,300,000→ Armed Forces Retirement Home (Washington, District of Columbia, and Gulfport, Mississippi)
“…available in the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund, $64,300,000…”
Division A, Title III; account: Armed forces retirement home, Trust fund
defense$5.5B · 3%
- Military construction, defense-wide: public works, installations and real property for DoD agencies other than the military departments$2,025,444,000available until FY2021
“…as currently authorized by law, $2,025,444,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021…”
Division A, Title I - Department of Defense; account: Military construction, defense-wide - Military construction, Air Force: acquisition, construction and equipment of Air Force installations and real property$1,491,058,000
“…real property for the Air Force as currently authorized by law, $1,491,058,000…”
Division A, Title I - Department of Defense; account: Military construction, air force - Military construction, Navy and Marine Corps: naval installations, facilities and real property$1,021,580,000
“…personal services necessary for the purposes of this appropriation, $1,021,580,000…”
Division A, Title I - Department of Defense; account: Military construction, navy and marine corps - Military construction, Army: Army installations, facilities, and facilities supporting the functions of the Commander in Chief$513,459,000
“…in support of the functions of the Commander in Chief, $513,459,000…”
Division A, Title I - Department of Defense; account: Military construction, army - Additional military construction for Navy and Marine Corps projects drawn from the service's fiscal year 2017 unfunded priority list$227,099,000→ Navy and Marine Corps
“…Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps, $227,099,000…”
Division A, Title I, sec. 125 - additional amounts for unfunded priority list projects - United States share of the NATO Security Investment Program (military facilities for the collective defense of the North Atlantic Treaty Area)$177,932,000available until expended→ North Atlantic Treaty Organization
“…and Military Construction Authorization Acts, $177,932,000, to remain available until expended…”
Division A, Title I; account: North Atlantic Treaty Organization security investment program - Additional Military Construction, Air Force for projects outside the United States, designated for Overseas Contingency Operations$88,291,000→ U.S. Air Force (overseas)
“…For an additional amount for Military Construction, Air Force $88,291,000…”
Division A, Title IV - Overseas Contingency Operations; account: Military construction, air force
transportation$1.4B · 1%
- National Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, provided under the CR at an annualized rate for operations - the CR ran only through December 9, 2016, so the budget authority actually released is a fraction of this figure$1,155,000,000→ National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
“…National Railroad Passenger Corporation at a rate for operations of $1,155,000,000…”
Division C, sec. 143(b) - Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration - Northeast Corridor Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, provided under the CR at an annualized rate for operations - the CR ran only through December 9, 2016, so the budget authority actually released is a fraction of this figure$235,000,000→ National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
“…National Railroad Passenger Corporation at a rate for operations of $235,000,000…”
Division C, sec. 143(b) - Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration
health$1.1B · 1%
- CDC-Wide Activities and Program Support to prevent, prepare for and respond to Zika virus and other vector-borne diseases (emergency-designated)$394,000,000available until FY2017→ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“…for CDC-Wide Activities and Program Support, $394,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017…”
Division B, Title I - Department of Health and Human Services; account: CDC-wide activities and program support - Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for Zika countermeasures, vaccines, diagnostics and medical supplies (emergency-designated)$387,000,000→ HHS Office of the Secretary
“…for Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, $387,000,000…”
Division B, Title I; account: Public health and social services emergency fund - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases research on Zika virology, vaccines and medical countermeasures (emergency-designated)$152,000,000→ National Institutes of Health
“…for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $152,000,000…”
Division B, Title I; account: National institute of allergy and infectious diseases - Global Health Programs - necessary expenses to prevent, prepare for and respond to the Zika virus and other vector-borne diseases, made available for vector control activities, vaccines, diagnostics and vector control technologies (emergency-designated)$145,500,000FY2016→ Bilateral Economic Assistance, Global Health Programs (Funds Appropriated to the President; administered by USAID)
“…For an additional amount for fiscal year 2016 for Global Health Programs, $145,500,000…”
Division B, Title II; account: Bilateral economic assistance, Global health programs
community & regional development$500.0M · 0.3%
- Community Development Fund - disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, and economic revitalization in the most impacted and distressed areas resulting from a major disaster declared in 2016 (gloss, not the text's words: title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 is the CDBG program)$500,000,000FY2016→ State or unit of general local government, at the discretion of the Secretary
“…Community Development Fund, there is appropriated $500,000,000 for an additional amount for fiscal year 2016…”
Division C, sec. 145(a) - Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Fund
other$20.2M · 0.0%
- Federal Payment for Emergency Planning and Security Costs in the District of Columbia for costs associated with the Presidential Inauguration, at an annualized rate for operations under the CR (the text names no year)$19,995,000→ District of Columbia
“…costs associated with the Presidential Inauguration, at a rate for operations of $19,995,000…”
Division C, sec. 127 - Payment to Sami A. Takai, widow of Kyle Mark Takai, late a Representative from the State of Hawaii$174,000→ Sami A. Takai
“…late a Representative from the State of Hawaii, $174,000…”
Division C, sec. 142
How this was built
Fetched the enrolled bill XML from GovInfo bulk BILLS (keyless), flattened it with ElementTree itertext to preserve spacing, scanned all 195 dollar strings in division order, read the operative verb around each ('For necessary expenses ... $X' / 'there is appropriated' vs 'There is authorized to be appropriated' vs 'are hereby rescinded' vs 'of which $X'), then hand-tagged the 40 largest and most illustrative with mechanism, category and a verbatim quote; each amount and quote was re-located by exact substring search in the fetched text. 45 of 45 sampled figures were re-located as exact strings in the source text. Source: GovInfo enrolled bill text. Full bill text.
Extraction notes (technical)
H.R. 5325 as enrolled is Public Law 114-223 (signed 2016-09-29). Despite the bill number's origin as the FY2017 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, the enrolled text is a four-division package: Division A - Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017; Division B - Zika Response and Preparedness Appropriations Act, 2016; Division C - Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017; Division D - Rescissions of Funds. Sec. 4 of the Act supplies the operative verb for the whole package: "The following sums in this Act are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017." It is therefore appropriations-style and spending_source is bill_text; no CBO score was needed or used. SAMPLE, NOT TOTAL. 45 of the largest and most illustrative line-items are carried here, drawn from the 195 dollar strings in the enrolled text (40 from the first pass, all of which survived adversarial verification, plus 5 large top-level accounts the first pass missed: Medical Services FY2017 $1,078,993,000; Medical and Prosthetic Research $675,366,000; Construction, Major Projects $528,110,000; Construction, Minor Projects $372,069,000; General Administration $345,391,000). The tracked total is a floor on the law's major spending, never a claim to be its complete total. MECHANISM CALLS (the point of this file): 1. APPROPRIATION vs AUTHORIZATION. Division A sec. 259 is the one place this law uses authorizing language: sec. 259(b) reads "There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs ... $1,113,802,000 for the projects authorized in subsection (a)." That is a ceiling on future appropriations, NOT money this Act provides, so it and the named project ceilings under it are tagged authorization and excluded from the pie. Sec. 259(a) lists eight projects (San Francisco, West Los Angeles, Long Beach, Alameda and Livermore, California; Louisville, Kentucky; Perry Point, Maryland; American Lake, Washington); the five largest are carried here as separate line-items. Verified by the verifier: the eight sub-ceilings sum to exactly $1,113,802,000, confirming they are components of the parent - they are not additive to it and must never be summed with it. 2. ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. Most of the VA money in Division A, Title II is budget authority that becomes available on October 1, 2017 (fiscal year 2018): Compensation and Pensions $90,119,449,000, Medical Services $44,886,554,000, Readjustment Benefits $13,708,648,000, Medical Community Care $9,409,118,000, Medical Support and Compliance $6,654,480,000, Medical Facilities $5,434,880,000. These are real appropriations made by this law, so they are tagged appropriation and counted; they are simply spent a year later. Compensation/Pensions and Readjustment Benefits are appropriated entitlements (mandatory in budget-function terms) provided through this appropriations act; because appropriation and direct_spending both count in the pie, the tracked total is unaffected by that distinction. 3. THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY CARE SWAP. The $7,246,181,000 fiscal year 2017 Medical Community Care appropriation is matched, to the dollar, by sec. 217, which rescinds the same $7,246,181,000 from the Medical Services advance appropriation made by P.L. 114-113. This law created the new account by moving money, not by adding it. The appropriation is counted (it is budget authority provided by this Act) and the rescission is disclosed separately as revenue_or_offset; a reader comparing the two should understand that pairing as roughly net-zero new money. 4. CONTINUING RESOLUTION FIGURES. Division C's chapeau appropriates, but sec. 101 funds nearly everything by reference - "such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2016", reduced by 0.496 percent - so the bulk of the CR carries NO dollar string in its own text and nothing was invented to fill that gap. Roughly $1.07 trillion of annualized budget authority continued by Division C is therefore absent from this file. The only Division C figures extracted are the named anomalies (sec. 116-145). Two cautions on them: (a) the ones phrased "at a rate for operations of $X" (Amtrak National Network $1,155,000,000, Amtrak Northeast Corridor $235,000,000, D.C. inauguration security $19,995,000) are ANNUALIZED rates, while sec. 106(3) ran the CR only through December 9, 2016, so the budget authority actually made available for the CR period is a fraction of each figure - they are tagged appropriation for consistency with how the corpus treats CR anomalies, but they overstate the cash this law alone released; (b) sec. 145(a)'s $500,000,000 for Community Development Block Grant disaster relief and sec. 142's $174,000 payment to the widow of Representative Kyle Mark Takai of Hawaii are flat, unconditional appropriations ('there is appropriated $500,000,000' / 'there is appropriated for payment to Sami A. Takai ... $174,000'), not rates. 5. SET-ASIDES are carve-outs inside a parent line already counted and are never summed again: $2,000,000,000 of the FY2017 Medical Community Care line held to September 30, 2020; and, inside the $387,000,000 Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund Zika line, $60,000,000 reserved for the territories with the highest Zika transmission and $40,000,000 to expand community health center primary care in Puerto Rico and other territories. 6. RESCISSIONS AND OFFSETS raise or save money rather than spend it and are excluded from the pie: the $7,246,181,000 VA swap above, $5,669,100,000 rescinded from CHIP allotments under sec. 2105(a)(3) of the Social Security Act (Division C sec. 141(b)), $171,600,000 of prior-year Military Construction, Defense-Wide balances (Division A sec. 127), and $168,100,000 of unobligated Affordable Care Act sec. 1323(c)(1) territory funds (Division D sec. 101(g)). Division D contains ten further, smaller rescissions not extracted here. 7. EMERGENCY DESIGNATIONS. All of Division B (Zika) and several rescissions are designated emergency requirements under sec. 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, and Division A, Title IV is designated for Overseas Contingency Operations. Those designations exempt the amounts from discretionary caps; they do not change the funding mechanism, so the money is still counted. 8. EARMARK-LEVEL DETAIL. Sec. 6 gives the explanatory statement printed in the Senate section of the Congressional Record on or about September 22, 2016 the effect of a joint explanatory statement for allocating funds. Project-by-project military construction and VA construction detail lives in that document, not in the enacted text, and is not extracted here. VERIFICATION. Every one of the 45 dollar strings below was re-located as an exact substring of the fetched enrolled XML (text recovered by ElementTree itertext, not tag-stripping), and every quote was confirmed to appear exactly once. Public-law citations in quotes use an en dash in the source; matching normalises en/em dashes to hyphens before comparison. Note $7,246,181,000 occurs twice in the source (the appropriation and its mirror rescission) - the two are disambiguated by location and by the full quote, per the methodology. 9. GLOSSES ARE LABELLED. Where a program's common name is not the enacted text's own words, the purpose field now says so explicitly - chapter 33 of title 38 (Post-9/11 GI Bill), PHS Act sec. 330 (community health centers), title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (CDBG), title XXI of the Social Security Act (CHIP), and ACA sec. 1323 (territory Exchanges). None of those names appear in the enrolled text; each was confirmed absent by substring search before being relabelled as a gloss.
How this lands in a state
two layers, in order: reported, shownPick a state and this section gives you two different things, and keeps them apart. First, what the government itself reports — obligations Treasury tags to this law, where such a tag exists. Second, the state’s own numbers — the same rows an assessment would be given, with their sources and vintages, so you can check this page against the record behind it. Every state is treated identically.
1. What the government reports
no official per-state breakdown exists for this lawNo official source breaks H.R. 5325 down by state, so this page publishes no per-state dollar figure for it. No Disaster Emergency Fund Code maps to this law, so no reported obligation can be traced back to it. Without that tag there is no audit trail from an award to this bill, and any per-state figure would be modelled rather than derived.
Two of the 31 laws tracked on this site can be broken down honestly — the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the American Rescue Plan Act — because Treasury tags their money with a Disaster Emergency Fund Code that maps to one public law and no other. Where no such code exists, a per-state figure would be modelled rather than derived, and this site does not publish modelled numbers.
The route we refuse to take, and why (technical)
USAspending's award SEARCH endpoints accept the same def_codes filter but select AWARDS, not DOLLARS: they return an award's entire obligation if any part of it touched the law's money. That route reported a single Sandia National Laboratories contract as $42.8B of IIJA money in New Mexico against a true DEFC-apportioned $64.5M, and overstated ARPA nationally by about 80%. It is not used here and must not be.
2. The assessment
nothing staged into this buildNo assessments were staged into this build. This layer reads precomputed readings out of the page, and this build carries none, so there is nothing here for any state — a gap in the build rather than a fact about H.R. 5325. The two sourced layers either side of it are unaffected: they are the government’s figures and the state’s own, and neither depends on a model.
3. The state’s own numbers
the rows the assessment was givenChoose a state above to see the measured profile the assessment reads from — its industry mix, its concentrations, and its energy consumption, each with its source and vintage.
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