"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 $2 million. This really is an all-hands-on-deck effort to make sure we’re bringing resources back to the community to improve the lives of the people that all of us are privileged to represent and fight hard for each and every day,"
Bring home federal funding to improve local community infrastructure and public safety.
Occurrences
Let’s pay TSA. Let’s fund FEMA. Let’s fund the Coast Guard. Let’s fund our cybersecurity professionals.
Let’s say yes instead to a bipartisan bill that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security, end the chaos at airports and stop the inconvenience of the American people.
Evidence
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Agency Department of Transportation | Account Highway Infrastructure Programs | Recipient NY | Project Reconstruction of Broadway | State NY | Amount ($) 1,850,000 | Requesters Jeffries, Velázquez | Origination H
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ADA: Van Siclen Avenue/Fulton NY 1,000,000 Jeffries
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DOJ OJP—Byrne Safe Horizon, Inc. Strengthen services for Brooklyn victims of child abuse and family violence in partnership with law enforcement Brooklyn, NY 500,000 Jeffries
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Department of Highway Infrastructure Pro- NY Jamaica Bay Greenway NY 250,000 Jeffries H Transpor- grams Gateway Link
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DOJ OJP—Byrne Research Foundation of CUNY o/b/ o John Jay College of Criminal Justice Central Brooklyn Violence Prevention Collaborative Brooklyn, NY 1,039,000 Jeffries H
Assessments
The promise is broad: bringing federal funding back to the district for infrastructure and public safety. The evidence shows concrete, secured federal community project funding tied to Jeffries as a requester and announcer, including $1.85 million for reconstruction of Brooklyn's Broadway Corridor and $1 million for NYCHA developments with security-related benefits. A Congressional Record entry independently confirms the Broadway project funding and lists Jeffries as a requester, strengthening candidate credit beyond a press release. Additional evidence of submitted appropriations requests and earlier secured safety upgrades at Sumner Houses further supports an ongoing pattern of delivery. Because actual federal funds were secured for both infrastructure improvement and public-safety-related local projects during his current service, this promise is best judged delivered in the same term.