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Federal Agencies by COVID-19 Dollars Obligated

All 28 awarding agencies in the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's funding table, ranked by the dollars they obligated from COVID-19 supplemental appropriations.

How this list is built

The PRAC publishes an agency funding table built from USAspending: one row per awarding agency and assistance listing, with the amounts obligated and outlayed from COVID-19 supplemental appropriations. The archive downloaded that file on 18 September 2026. This list groups its 1,482 rows by awarding agency, sums both columns, and ranks by obligations.

Unit ranked: the awarding agency. Metric: obligated dollars funded by COVID-19 supplementals, $2.423 trillion in total across 529 assistance listings. Vintage: PRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026.

The ranking

#Awarding agencyObligatedOutlaysAssistance listings
1Small Business Administration$928.91B$928.43B13
2Department of the Treasury$485.63B$634.20B13
3Department of Health and Human Services$328.77B$307.26B171
4Department of Education$280.38B$275.10B14
5Department of Agriculture$124.28B$114.97B91
6Department of Transportation$94.30B$99.57B11
7Department of Homeland Security$84.75B$12.59B24
8Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation$35.00B$34.70B1
9Department of Housing and Urban Development$22.30B$15.79B22
10Federal Communications Commission$13.37B$9.56B4
11Agency for International Development$6.74B$6.91B6
12Department of Commerce$5.61B$1.01B12
13Department of the Interior$3.08B$3.01B51
14Department of Veterans Affairs$2.10B$1.94B7
15Department of Labor$2.09B$2.22B5
16Department of State$1.59B$1.82B17
17Department of Justice$0.79B$0.55B1
18Department of Defense$0.78B$0.03B21
19National Science Foundation$0.65B$0.53B10
20Corporation for National and Community Service$0.48B$0.44B8
21Election Assistance Commission$0.34B$0.34B1
22Institute of Museum and Library Services$0.24B$0.24B6
23National Endowment for the Humanities$0.21B<$0.01B7
24National Endowment for the Arts$0.20B$0.20B2
25Environmental Protection Agency$0.07B$0.05B11
26Railroad Retirement Board$0.05B$0.05B1
27Department of Energy<$0.01B<$0.01B1
28U.S. International Development Finance Corporation<$0.01B<$0.01B1

What this measures, and what it does not

Obligations are commitments to spend; outlays are cash actually paid. Both columns are reproduced from the PRAC file and neither is adjusted for inflation.

This is USAspending's view of the money. A program USAspending does not carry is absent here, and relief delivered through the tax code — the Employee Retention Credit above all — is not an obligation and does not appear at all. An agency's rank therefore measures the supplemental money routed through its awards, not the whole of what it did.

The agency named is the awarding agency, not the agency that wrote the rules or the one that bore the loss. Loan programs enter at the amount obligated: the Paycheck Protection Program row is $811.58B, the money committed to the loans, so a guaranteed dollar and a granted dollar rank alike.

Amounts under $5 million round to zero in billions and are shown as <$0.01B.

Sources

  • PRAC, Track the money: data
  • File as held: agency-funding-data.xlsx, the PRAC agency funding table as downloaded 18 September 2026 (sha256 4ae70be9ff6bbfdc…)
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