Congressman Kweisi Mfume has submitted funding requests for important community projects in the 7th Congressional District of Maryland to the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations.
Request FY26 appropriations to support Baltimore's 911 diversion expansion project.
Occurrences
Evidence
The FY26 appropriations requests page lists a City of Baltimore project named "911 Diversion Expansion" with a requested amount of $1,184,000. The description says the funding would support expansion of Baltimore’s 911 diversion program to include non-behavioral health call types.
The Congressional Record lists "City of Baltimore | Project 911 Diversion Expansion | Location Baltimore, MD | Conference Amount ($) 1,031,000 | Requestor(s) Mfume."
The report says MONSE continued work on expanding Baltimore’s 911 diversion efforts and that the 911 diversion expansion project was selected as one of the FY26 federal earmark requests ($1.184M) sent to committee.
Assessments
The promise was specifically to request FY26 appropriations for Baltimore's 911 diversion expansion project, not necessarily to secure the full amount. Mfume's FY26 appropriations requests page lists the City of Baltimore '911 Diversion Expansion' project with a $1,184,000 request, which fulfills the requested action while he was serving in the same federal House term. Later evidence that the project advanced with a lower conference amount does not reduce fulfillment of the narrower promise to request the funding.