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C-003 - International assistance obligations and disbursements are not interchangeable

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Claim ID: C-003

Audit ID: AUDIT-001

Section ID: Section 3

Status: Published

Confidence: See linked section and source confidence records.

Section 3 preserves separate accounting states while carrying the unresolved beneficiary-capture share as an open question.

Referenced By

Audit: The Citizen Audit v1.0

Section: Section 3

Related Sources

S-001 S-038 S-039 S-040 S-042 S-043

Related Decisions

D-013 D-014 D-017

Related Claims

C-001 - Section 1

Executive summary keeps measurable lanes on their native bases

The opening section preserves lane separation instead of collapsing obligations, outlays, cumulative military lines, and domestic program examples into one number.

C-004 - Section 4

Ukraine and Israel examples are illustrative and non-additive

Section 4 exists to show stage differences and beneficiary chains without adding its examples back into the running totals.

C-005 - Section 4

Ukraine stage labels cannot be netted casually

Appropriations, drawdowns, disbursements, and delivered-value estimates sit at different stages and remain analytically separate.

C-006 - Section 5

Military aid keeps net-new lanes separate from already-counted foreign assistance

Section 5 excludes allied-funded sales and already-counted assistance while preserving drawdown value versus replacement-cost separation.

C-007 - Section 6

ORR is owned as a domestic lane, not an overseas add-on

Refugee and entrant assistance stays in one canonical domestic section so it is not double-counted against foreign-assistance accounts.

C-016 - Section 14

The conservative total is a reproducible set of subtotals, not one synthetic number

Section 14 is locked to a blueprint that preserves incompatible bases instead of flattening them into a false grand total.

C-017 - Section 15

Publication limits remain visible and binding

Section 15 preserves missing-record constraints as governance rules for what the audit may claim.

C-018 - Section 16

The final argument inherits the same basis rules and evidence limits

Section 16 does not create a new theory of the numbers; it restates bounded findings from the locked sections.

Revision History

2026-07-01 - 1.0 - Claim imported into the structured traceability model from the Version 1.0 platform layer.