Ensure federal resources and infrastructure investments are delivered equitably to underserved Michigan communities to strengthen public services, transit, and economic opportunity where it is needed most.
If elected, she will ensure federal resources and infrastructure investments are delivered equitably to underserved Michigan communities.
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"Ensure federal resources and infrastructure investments are delivered equitably to underserved Michigan communities to strengthen public services, transit, and economic opportunity where it is needed most."
2025 requests include the Auburn Hills Stormwater Infrastructure Project, Berkley Citywide Lead Water Service Line Replacements Project, Ferndale Lead Service Line Verification Project, Oakland County Transit Project, and Oak Park Community Event Hub and Farmers Market Project, with project descriptions emphasizing stormwater, drinking water, transit, and low-income access benefits.
Roll Call 45 on passage of H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, passed 341-88; the official vote page records the final House passage of the appropriations package.
"Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-MI) announced over $8 million in federal funding she secured for Oakland County projects in the House-passed bipartisan funding bill, H.R. 7148. Stevens voted in favor of the bill..." and she said she was "proud to have secured federal dollars for critical projects here at home that will improve our infrastructure".
EPA announced Pontiac School District would receive up to $5,925,000 from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for 15 electric school buses; Haley Stevens said, "Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which I helped pass, these buses will not only provide critical transportation, but do so without exposing our students and community to dangerous, polluting exhaust."
The bill would establish a five-year federal grant program worth $1 billion and includes an equity provision directing at least 49% of funding toward financially disadvantaged communities, waiving cost-share requirements for those recipients.
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Stevens took concrete same-term actions aligned with the promise, including securing federal funding for local infrastructure projects, supporting appropriations, backing Bipartisan Infrastructure Law implementation that delivered clean school bus funding to Pontiac, requesting community project funding for water/transit/access projects, and advancing a water infrastructure bill with explicit disadvantaged-community funding provisions. However, the promise was broad and outcome-oriented: ensuring equitable delivery of federal resources and infrastructure investments to underserved Michigan communities. The evidence shows meaningful deliveries and serious efforts, but not enough to establish that equitable delivery across underserved Michigan communities was fully achieved.