Reduce the matching requirement for the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program in persistent poverty counties.

Donald G. Davis · North Carolina · Democratic

spending impact 3.00 specificity 5.00 extraction confidence 98%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Expanding rural entrepreneurship in persistent poverty counties: (Includes provisions from an amendment led by Congressman Davis during markup of the bill) Reduces the matching requirement for organizations participating in the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP) from 15 percent to 5 percent in persistent poverty counties—areas where poverty rates have remained at or above 20 percent for decades.

Davis supported reducing the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program match requirement in persistent poverty counties.

Congressman Don Davis Votes to Stand with Farmers, Producers, and Rural Communities across NC-01 | Representative Davis
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Evidence

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Davis's office said H.R. 7567 passed the House 224-200 and included a Davis-led markup amendment reducing the RMAP match from 15% to 5% in persistent-poverty counties.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Concrete effort in the same congressional term: Davis voted for the House-passed 2026 farm bill and his office identified the RMAP persistent-poverty match reduction as included from his amendment. This is meaningful progress, but not final enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

Congressman Don Davis Votes to Advance Bipartisan Farm Bill for Eastern North Carolina | Representative Davis
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The U.S. Code still lists the RMAP grant matching requirement as not less than 15% of the grant total, with no 5% persistent-poverty exception.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): As of the preliminary U.S. Code text in effect on August 18, 2026, the statutory RMAP match had not yet been reduced. The promise therefore remains unresolved rather than delivered, despite Davis's House-side action.

unresolved same_term A for effort

7 U.S.C. 2008s: Rural microentrepreneur assistance program
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Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

Davis materially advanced the promise in the same federal House term: H.R. 7567 passed the House with a Davis-led markup amendment reducing the RMAP match from 15% to 5% in persistent-poverty counties. However, the change had not been enacted into law as of the cited August 18, 2026 U.S. Code text, which still listed the 15% matching requirement with no persistent-poverty exception. Because the promised policy outcome was advanced by Davis but not finally delivered, this merits partial credit rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%