Menendez will continue working to bring federal funding and resources home to support projects that improve the quality-of-life for residents and strengthen local communities.
continue working to bring federal funding and resources home for local community projects
Occurrences
I look forward to continuing to work to get these projects across the finish line.
Evidence
The May 13, 2026 House press release says Republicans refused to consider Menendez's amendment to H.R. 8469, the FY2027 VA appropriations bill; the amendment would have barred spending taxpayer dollars on investigations tied to honoring Alex Pretti.
Menendez's office says it is accepting FY27 appropriations requests and Community Project Funding submissions for NJ-08, with forms and instructions for programmatic, language, and project-specific requests.
Assessments
The promise is framed as continuing to work to secure federal funding and resources for local projects. The available evidence shows Menendez was actively pursuing appropriations-related action in office during the same term, including submitting an amendment to an appropriations bill and running a formal FY27 Community Project Funding request process for NJ-08. That demonstrates meaningful ongoing effort, but the record here does not show that these efforts resulted in actual delivered federal funding or completed local project awards. Because there is clear same-term work but not clear same-term delivery, partial credit fits best.