US GOVERNMENT as FEC employer text: $9.7 million

A catch-all federal phrase on Schedule A

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. Filers who do not name a department often type US GOVERNMENT. The $9,651,418 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not the federal budget, not a NAICS 92 rollup, and not a cabinet-agency PAC. Hatch Act limits on some federal employees are outside this page’s facts; the table still records disclosed itemized gifts.

People who typed USPS, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, or STATE OF OHIO sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those agency names into US GOVERNMENT. The FEC field is not an OPM headcount.

932 donors and 27,855 lines

932 unique donors produced 27,855 US GOVERNMENT contribution lines totaling $9,651,418. That is on the order of 30 itemized receipts per donor. Line volume sits below named-agency payroll clusters such as USPS in this ranking and above thinner state-employer rows. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and agency PAC filings are outside the $9,651,418 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 27,855 lines are expected.

USPS and named agencies are other keys

USPS, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, and STATE OF CALIFORNIA are separate employer strings. Combining them with US GOVERNMENT would invent a public-sector recode. This page stays at $9,651,418 for the generic phrase only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside US GOVERNMENT — attorney, analyst, retired — as typed. A donor who listed a specific cabinet department is not in these 932 people unless the receipt grouped to US GOVERNMENT.

Donor table without agency inference

The US GOVERNMENT donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a regulation, a contract, or a motive to that line. Former federal employees who still type US GOVERNMENT share the string with current staff.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This guide does not assign a partisan percentage to the generic phrase. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $9,651,418, 27,855 contributions, 932 donors, top employer US GOVERNMENT. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Unitemized gifts, state races, and agency PACs are omitted.

Compare USPS and FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION on the industry index. Occupation breakdowns show titles beside US GOVERNMENT. Cite $9,651,418 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS public-administration table.

Named agencies this catch-all phrase misses

US GOVERNMENT as a generic phrase is not USPS, not FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, and not a cabinet department legal name. Those strings sit on other keys. The $9,651,418 total, 27,855 contribution lines, and 932 donors describe this catch-all only. STATE OF OHIO and STATE OF CALIFORNIA remain state-employer rows.

Unitemized gifts, state races, agency PACs, and appropriated spending stay outside the $9,651,418. Occupation pages show titles beside US GOVERNMENT. Former federal employees who still type the phrase remain in the 932. The FEC field is not an OPM headcount and not NAICS 92. Repeat names among 27,855 lines are expected.

Open the US GOVERNMENT donor table for disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a regulation or contract inference. Cite $9,651,418, 27,855 contributions, and 932 donors from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Do not add USPS to this phrase and call the sum a federal-workforce industry.

Researchers who want a federal-workforce recode must list USPS, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, and named departments as separate additions. The $9,651,418 figure does not absorb those rows. It stays on US GOVERNMENT as 932 donors and 27,855 lines. Agency PAC filings remain other FEC categories. Follow recipient committees on the US GOVERNMENT donor table. Party share is not computed on the industry headline. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not NAICS 92 and not an OPM census.

Questions

How much have US GOVERNMENT-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $9,651,418 to the US GOVERNMENT employer string, from 27,855 contributions and 932 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not an agency PAC and not a NAICS public-administration total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that figure.

Does this include USPS employees?

Only if the receipt grouped to US GOVERNMENT. USPS is a separate employer string with its own page and a much higher contribution count. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION is another named-agency key. Figures here are limited to the generic FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this federal corporate or treasury spending?

No. The $9,651,418 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to US GOVERNMENT. Agency PAC filings and appropriated spending are other categories. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

How many unique donors listed US GOVERNMENT?

The rollup counts 932 donors and 27,855 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count — on the order of 30 itemized receipts per donor. This is not an OPM employee census. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.