Bring home federal funding to improve local community infrastructure and public safety.

"Taxpayer dollars should be spent right here, on the ground in the community, to make your life better, and Congresswoman Velázquez and I are bringing home almost $2 million. This really is an all-hands-on-deck effort to make sure we’re bringing resources back to the community to improve the lives of the people that all of us are privileged to represent and fight hard for each and every day,"

Jeffries says he and Velázquez are bringing federal dollars back to the community to improve local conditions.

LEADER JEFFRIES AND REP. VELÁZQUEZ SECURE $1.85 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF BROADWAY CORRIDOR – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries
primary · press_release · model gpt-5.4-mini

Let’s pay TSA. Let’s fund FEMA. Let’s fund the Coast Guard. Let’s fund our cybersecurity professionals.

Jeffries commits to supporting funding for TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and cybersecurity professionals.

LEADER JEFFRIES FLOOR REMARKS OPPOSING REPUBLICAN BILL FUNDING ICE BRUTALITY AND CONTINUING AIRPORT CHAOS – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries
primary · speech · model gpt-5.4-mini

Let’s say yes instead to a bipartisan bill that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security, end the chaos at airports and stop the inconvenience of the American people.

Jeffries commits to supporting a bipartisan bill to reopen DHS and end airport chaos.

LEADER JEFFRIES FLOOR REMARKS OPPOSING REPUBLICAN BILL FUNDING ICE BRUTALITY AND CONTINUING AIRPORT CHAOS – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries
primary · speech · model gpt-5.4-mini

Agency Department of Transportation | Account Highway Infrastructure Programs | Recipient NY | Project Reconstruction of Broadway | State NY | Amount ($) 1,850,000 | Requesters Jeffries, Velázquez | Origination H

Official Congressional Record entry shows the Broadway reconstruction project was included in FY2026 community project funding at $1.85 million with Jeffries as a requester, which is concrete evidence of secured federal funding for local infrastructure.

delivered same_term A for effort

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 95%

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) and Rep. Nydia Velázquez announced that they secured $1,850,000 in federal community project funding for the reconstruction of Brooklyn’s Broadway Corridor.

Jeffries’s office publicly announced the secured funding for a Brooklyn infrastructure project during the lookback window, confirming a delivered federal funding result.

delivered same_term A for effort

LEADER JEFFRIES AND REP. VELÁZQUEZ SECURE $1.85 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF BROADWAY CORRIDOR – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 91%

Jeffries has submitted funding requests for important community projects in New York’s 8th Congressional District to the House Appropriations Committee... Description of Request: This funding would be used to upgrade AC and HVAC units, lighting, water access, ceiling infrastructure, equipment and furniture in NYC Department of Education student facilities.

Shows active pursuit of federal community project funding for district infrastructure improvements, including school facility upgrades relevant to the claim’s infrastructure component.

partial same_term A for effort

FY26 CPF Submissions
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 86%

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) announced that he secured $1 million in Community Project Funding for NYCHA developments across the Eighth Congressional District... security infrastructure are stronger because of this support.

A separate federal funding announcement in the same period shows continued efforts to bring home money for local infrastructure and safety-related projects in the district.

partial same_term A for effort

LEADER JEFFRIES SECURES $1 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR NYCHA – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 84%

Representative Hakeem Jeffries announced that he secured $850,000 for security upgrades at NYCHA’s Sumner Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn through the government funding law.

Older but still official evidence that Jeffries has delivered federal funds for public-safety-related improvements in the district; useful context for pattern of delivery but outside the 30-day lookback.

delivered same_term A for effort

LEADER JEFFRIES SECURES $850,000 FOR NYCHA SUMNER HOUSES
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 79%