Decision Log

Every adopted figure is gross money directed toward non-U.S. recipients or noncitizens. The audit does not offset those figures against taxes paid or any net-fiscal-impact model.

Visible references: Section 1, Section 2, Section 9

Lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees, parolees, temporary statuses, and undocumented persons are analytically distinct categories and are never merged into one undifferentiated headline.

Visible references: Section 2

Each figure keeps both its number type and its resource category visible. Drawdown transfer value, replacement appropriations, obligations, outlays, and program authorities are tracked as different things.

Visible references: Section 2, Section 5

Sections with broad program scope publish their universe explicitly, including residual or immaterial lines, so no material account is silently dropped from the research frame.

Visible references: Section 3, Section 4, Section 6

The audit preserves two permanent running concepts: Total A for gross directed resources and Total B for estimated value ultimately reaching the non-U.S. recipient after U.S.-captured share. They are never merged.

Visible references: Section 3, Section 14

Military-aid lines already embedded in the foreign-assistance aggregate are counted once. Section 5 aggregates only NET-NEW military lanes and excludes allied-funded FMS, DCS, and other non-taxpayer or already-counted amounts.

Visible references: Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, Section 14

Illustrative sections may publish their search path, source classes, and unresolved pulls so readers can see what was investigated even when those sections are non-additive.

Visible references: Section 4

Certain locked sections begin with a standardized key-findings block that summarizes already-established evidence without introducing new evidence or new methodology in the summary itself.

Visible references: Section 4, Section 5

Where lane subtotals sit on incompatible bases such as disbursement versus obligation, annual versus cumulative, or federal versus federal-plus-state, the rigorous output is a set of basis-segregated subtotals rather than one synthetic total.

Visible references: Section 1, Section 5, Section 12, Section 14, Section 16

Domestic federal dollars are owned by one canonical section so routed programs are not counted twice. ORR, Medicaid, TANF-related pathways, and state-administered lenses keep their owning section explicit.

Visible references: Section 6, Section 7, Section 8, Section 9, Section 10, Section 11, Section 12, Section 13

The conservative-total section is built to a fixed blueprint that preserves lane separation, forbids invented gap estimates, and requires reproducibility from the locked source sections.

Visible references: Section 14

After the blueprint was populated and checked, Section 14 was locked as the publication's conservative set-of-subtotals representation.

Visible references: Section 14

The limitations section was locked to carry forward the publication's missing-record constraints without backfilling them with modeled certainty.

Visible references: Section 15

The final argument was locked after assembly so the publication's closing synthesis reflects the same basis-separation and limitation rules as the rest of Version 1.0.

Visible references: Section 16

Repository completion for Version 1.0 means the locked sections, appendices, source library, and decision log are assembled as publication assets without rewriting the underlying analytical conclusions.

Visible references: Appendix A, Appendix B, Repository assets