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SANGER – Sanger has the House Appropriations Committee (Committee) and Congressman Jim Costa to thank for a $850,000 grant that will fund the remodel and renovation of the city’s fire station. The grant is part of over $12 million for local projects in the Valley for fiscal year 2024.
FIRST IN NATSEC DAILY — DEMS CALL FOR UKRAINE RESET: Democratic members of the Ukrainecaucus are urging Ukraine and the U.S. to reset the bilateral relationship and focus on the threats posed by Russia, and offering Trump some rare compliments from the left side of politics in the process.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) secured $12,235,783 in Community Project Funding through the Fiscal Year 2024 budget. This funding will respond directly to some of the most pressing needs in Fresno and Tulare counties. The budget is expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden later this week.
Rep. Jim Costa (D–Fresno) has secured $12.2 million for local projects throughout Congressional District 21.
The funding comes in the form of grants for the federal government’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget.
The big picture: At the top of the list is a $3 million investment in the Upper Kings Groundwater Resiliency Project, which is facilitated by the Alta, Fresno, and Consolidated Irrigation DIstricts. It will construct 3,300 acres of basins to be used for capturing surface water in wet years and pumping groundwater during dry years.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) announced that Natalie Caples, co-CEO of Central California Food Bank will be his guest for the 2024 State of the Union Address.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) and Dusty Johnson (SD-AL) introduced the Modernizing Operations for Vehicles in Emergencies (MOVE) Act to provide flexibility and certainty to our supply chains in times of emergency.
"During times of emergency and the pandemic, struggling communities in my district were hit hardest by roadblocks to our supply chain,” said Costa. “This bipartisan legislation will remove barriers that prevent us from delivering vital relief when communities need it most.”
FRESNO, Calif. – U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Adrian Smith (NE-03), and Dusty Johnson (SD-AL), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Agricultural Trade Caucus led 24 of their colleagues in the House urging the Biden Administration to make agriculture a priority in its trade agenda by reducing tariff and non-tariff barriers for American agricultural exports.
FRESNO, Calif. - Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) released the following statement after the death of Alexei Navalny, the Opposition leader in Russia.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1), Jared Golden (ME-2), Don Bacon (NE-2), Ed Case (HI-1), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-3), and Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-5) introduced the bipartisan Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act. This legislation provides, for one-year, necessary authorities to secure the U.S. southern border and defense-only appropriations in support of Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.