Rep. Beatty voted YES on the Moving Forward Act because it makes critically needed investments in broadband, schools, clean energy, and healthcare. ... In addition, this Act will: Rebuild our highways, bridges, transit, rail airports, ports, and harbors through nearly $500 billion in investments. ... Secure our children’s futures through safe school reopenings and a $130 billion investment in school infrastructure to rebuild schools. Upgrade hospitals and health care infrastructure with a $30 billion investment.
Make major investments in broadband, schools, clean energy, healthcare, highways, bridges, transit, rail, airports, ports, harbors, affordable housing, and school and health infrastructure.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congresswoman Beatty announced $12 million in U.S. DOT RAISE funding for the Linden Green Line project. The project will redevelop an abandoned rail corridor into a linear park and active transportation corridor, connect four community centers and 19 schools, and is described as part of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-backed investment. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2026.
Beatty’s FY26 Community Project Funding page lists requests for projects including affordable housing and transportation/technology-related infrastructure, such as a mixed-use building with 100 affordable housing units and research/equipment tied to advanced vehicle technologies and connectivity.
Beatty reintroduced the HOME Investment Partnerships Reauthorization and Improvement Act to significantly increase federal funds for the HOME program and address the affordable housing crisis. The release says the program received only $1.25 billion in FY2024, and Beatty argued for more federal investment in housing.
Beatty reintroduced the Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2025, which would support first-time homebuyers through HUD-certified counseling and a lower FHA mortgage insurance premium, framed by the office as a housing-affordability measure.
Beatty joined the Community Investment and Prosperity Act, which would increase the cap on bank investments in projects that benefit the public good, including affordable housing, to 20%.
Beatty hosted a health-care roundtable focused on the consequences of Medicaid cuts and local health-care infrastructure, indicating continued advocacy around healthcare investment and access.
The office tied government-shutdown messaging to the need to extend health care tax credits and warned that premiums would rise in 2026 if action was not taken.
The project is described as a transformative investment funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and as the first Central Ohio RAISE award since 2012, reflecting concrete federal infrastructure dollars flowing to the district.
Assessments
Beatty secured at least one concrete federal infrastructure investment in the current term, including $12 million in RAISE funding for the Linden Green Line, which supports transit and school connectivity. But the claim is much broader, covering major investments across broadband, schools, clean energy, healthcare, highways, bridges, transit, rail, airports, ports, harbors, affordable housing, and health infrastructure. The rest of the evidence is mostly appropriations requests, bill reintroductions, and advocacy, not proof that the full package of promised investments was enacted or delivered, so this is only partial fulfillment.
The promise is extremely broad, covering major investments across many sectors. The strongest evidence shows Beatty secured a concrete $12 million U.S. DOT RAISE award for the Linden Green Line project, a real federal infrastructure investment tied to transportation and connectivity, so at least part of the pledge was delivered during the same term. However, most other cited actions are requests, advocacy, roundtables, or reintroduced legislation on affordable housing and healthcare rather than enacted, district-delivered major investments. Because there is documented delivery in one portion of the promise but not enough evidence that Beatty achieved the full multi-sector package of major investments she promised, the best judgment is partial fulfillment. Effort badge is warranted because she made multiple substantive legislative and appropriations efforts beyond rhetoric.