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PARLIER, Calif. – The reconstruction of Parlier’s police station is now one step closer to the end following efforts to secure federal funding. 

On the week of July 15, the House Appropriations Committee approved Congressman Jim Costa’s $1 million request for Community Project Funding (CPF) to assist in the reconstruction of the Parlier Police Department (PD) station. The project is focused on bringing much-needed repairs to the building and creating a safer environment for both police personnel and members of the public. 

California House Democrats on Friday demanded that the National Weather Service restore some terminated workers and begin hiring new forecasters after it halted around-the-clock operations at its Sacramento and Hanford weather forecasting offices, among others.

FRESNO, Calif. - In an exclusive interview with ABC30 Action News, Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) spoke about a letter he sent to the Trump administration demanding an unredacted copy of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) allowing the IRS and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to share taxpayer data to target immigrants. 

News: California Democratic Rep. Jim Costa is leading a dozen Democrats in a new push to condemn President Donald Trump’s Mexico and Canada tariffs.

Rep. Jim Costa (D–Fresno) has introduced legislation that seeks to protect people from having to pay an inheritance tax. 

Costa teamed up with a bipartisan group of representatives to introduce a bill in support of preserving the stepped-up basis provision in the tax code. 

Why it matters: The stepped-up provision allows Americans to inherit assets – such as land, equipment and buildings – and adjust their cost basis to reflect the fair market value, which protects them from capital gains taxes. 

The American Dream and Promise Act from Reps. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) and Sylvia Garcia (D-Houston) provides citizenship opportunities to the nearly 500,000 people in the U.S. protected by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It also provides citizenship pathways for people with Temporary Protected Status, and Deferred Enforced Departure recipients.

Pressing ahead with steep tariffs on Canada and Mexico risks exacerbating the US housing crisis and threatening the broader economy, dozens of congressional Democrats have warned Donald Trump.

FIRST IN MA: Reps. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) and Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) are introducing a resolution today reaffirming support for Food for Peace on the food aid program’s 70th anniversary.

Food for Peace was established on this day in 1954 to send U.S. agricultural commodities overseas to countries struggling with hunger or famines. Costa and Johnson’s bipartisan resolution calls for “continued prioritization of funding for Food for Peace programs.”