One of America’s tiniest territories is going to get a big boost in the legislature from the stimulus package.
Guam was given six congressional districts by the stimulus funds that it received, according to recovery.gov.
It appears that the labels for the districts, including 00 and 98, were chosen at random. It is obvious that Guam has no congressional districts, but it is not clear what geographic entities, if any, the districts refer to.
The congressional districts are, of course, not real, but the money sent to each one is. The stimulus package presented the territory with nearly $221 million.
A Watchdog study revealed 440 non-existent congressional districts within the stimulus tracking web site, recovery.org. The full report can be found here and below:
[...] Guam: 6 phantom districts [...]