Федеральное правительство суммирует $37,09 млрд в Пуэрто-Рико за FY2026

On September 10, 2026, the economic peg of the day is not an isolated FEMA award nor a Housing QPR: it is the living territorial profile of USAspending.gov for Puerto Rico (/state/puerto-rico/latest), read alongside the Treasury public API. The primary source of this note is that federal transparency page and the spending_by_geography, spending_by_award_count and spending_by_category/awarding_agency queries with place of performance in PR. Last-Modified of the HTML shell coincided with the anchor 2026-09-10; the totals cited below were extracted on the same workday from the file. Aggregated amount ≠ obligated (FEMA) ≠ allocated (Congress/HUD) ≠ disbursed (COR3).

For the federal fiscal year 2026 (Oct 1, 2025–Sep 10, 2026 in the query), the place of performance geography Puerto Rico reports an aggregated_amount of $37,088,070,136.71, with a reference population of 3,285,874 and a per capita of $11,287.12. The geography response identifies PR as shape_code and Puerto Rico as display_name; population and per_capita are endpoint metadata, while the amount is the aggregate of transactions for the queried window. That total aggregates federal transactions with performance in the Island; it is not the Public Assistance ledger from COR3 nor the CDBG-DR balance from DRGR.

As a full-year contrast, the same geography for FY2025 (Oct 1, 2024–Sep 30, 2025) shows $38,433,546,686.26 aggregated and per capita $11,696.60. The correct journalistic reading is to compare fiscal windows, not to invent a “cut” by blindly subtracting partial FY26 minus FY25. An FY26 still open can approach or surpass the previous year when it closes on September 30; this note does not anticipate that closing.

The breakdown by award type (award count, not dollars) in FY26 through September 10 lists: direct_payments 15,210; loans 6,338; contracts 3,532; grants 2,969; other 946; idvs 0. That composition matters in San Juan: large volume of direct payments and loans versus grants and contracts. Award count ≠ amount disbursed; a large HUD or DHS grant can weigh more in dollars than thousands of small payments.

By awarding agency (transaction amounts, top of the API ranking), partial FY26 in PR is led by HHS $14,910,954,940.81, followed by SSA $10,741,889,983.94, USDA $3,511,303,428.79, VA $1,724,024,084.51, DOD $1,633,451,225.10, DHS $1,492,613,158.24, ED $1,433,686,586.63, HUD $699,501,539.35, DOT $479,701,249.88 and DOL $170,086,478.35. FEMA travels within DHS; CDBG-DR/MIT travel within HUD. Anyone who sums only HUD and concludes “all recovery” would omit Medicaid/HHS, SSA, and USDA, which dominate the USAspending profile of the Island.

How to use the primary on the table: (1) cite place of performance and the date range of the query; (2) label aggregated_amount in English as provided by the API; (3) do not convert the total into “FEMA already paid $37 billion”; (4) cross DHS/HUD with the Financial Summary from COR3 and with DRGR, not the other way around; (5) remember that USAspending aggregates government-wide, including social payroll and agriculture. The portal is SPA; the facts in this note come from the official API, not from an invented screenshot.

For the Borinquen file, the value of September 10 is to place disaster recovery within the total federal flow to Puerto Rico. A reader in Ponce or Mayagüez needs to know that reconstruction money coexists with HHS and SSA in the same territorial profile. Obligated ≠ disbursed ≠ aggregated_amount. Cousin: none. Topic: economy. Source: USAspending state profile Puerto Rico + API v2.

The file insists on the methodological difference: USAspending adds transactions with place of performance in PR, while COR3 reports FEMA obligations and disbursements by disaster declaration. The same dollar can appear in different universes depending on the system. That is why this note does not “reconcile” $37.088 billion with the Financial Summary of $39B+ in PA: they are different ledgers. The usefulness of the Treasury profile is to show the relative weight of HHS, SSA, and USDA compared to DHS and HUD in the federal flow to the Island.

It is also worth highlighting the count of awards: 15,210 direct payments versus 2,969 grants does not imply that the grants are smaller in fiscal impact. A single CDBG or PA grant can exceed hundreds of direct payments. The table should always request the amount by category when the API provides it, not just the count. In this query, the agency ranking is already ordered by amount; HHS and SSA explain most of the partial FY26 aggregate.

Operational closure: save the API response JSON along with the state profile URL; note start_date 2025-10-01 and end_date 2026-09-10; label population and per_capita as metadata of the geography endpoint. Any subsequent update of the living page will require a new query. This piece remains anchored to the fetch of batch Journalist #2.