Expand and modernize public infrastructure with equity, accessibility, sustainability, transit parity, and publicly owned internet networks.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · New York · Democratic

spending impact 0.74 specificity 0.92 extraction confidence 94%

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Occurrences

Efforts to build a transportation system that emphasizes equity, access, and sustainability, including by increasing investments in multi-modal transportation and walkable communities, and ensuring all public transportation is ADA compliant and accessible. Yes No Increase funding for mass transit with the goal of reaching parity between funding for mass transit and surface transportation. Yes No Increase funding for infrastructure projects to rehabilitate and retrofit all existing public buildings, including, removing lead pipes and installing onsite renewable energy generation and storage. Yes No Set up publicly owned and democratically controlled internet networks. Yes No

Pledges to support several public infrastructure measures on transit, buildings, and public broadband.

CTC Questionnaire | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress
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Evidence

The page says Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has secured funding for 15 NY-14 community projects, including Broadway Station ADA upgrades, Southern Boulevard bus-stop accessibility upgrades, coastal resilience, green infrastructure, and wetland mitigation.

Concrete district funding shows partial delivery on accessibility, resilience, and public-facility modernization, though it does not cover the publicly owned internet-network part of the promise.

partial later_term A for effort

NY-14 Community Project Funding (FY26)
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On June 2, the House passed the Geothermal Cost-Recovery Authority Act, Ocasio-Cortez's bill to let the Bureau of Land Management recover geothermal application and inspection costs and speed project development without weakening environmental protections.

This is concrete legislative progress on clean-energy infrastructure and sustainability, but it is still House passage rather than enacted law.

partial later_term A for effort

House Passes Ocasio-Cortez’s Bill to Scale Up Development of Geothermal Energy Projects | Representative Ocasio-Cortez
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On May 1, Ocasio-Cortez and other New York lawmakers called on the Trump administration to release $156.5 million for Bronx stations accessibility upgrades.

This shows active pressure for transit-accessibility funding, but the source itself is a request to unblock funds rather than proof the money was delivered.

unresolved later_term A for effort

Ocasio-Cortez, Gillibrand, Schumer, Espaillat, Torres Lead Call For Trump Administration To Release $156.5 Million In Bronx Stations Accessibility Upgrade Funding
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Assessments

partial later_term A for effort

Ocasio-Cortez has materially advanced parts of this promise in federal office, especially on sustainable and accessible infrastructure. The evidence shows she secured FY26 community-project funding in NY-14 for ADA station upgrades, bus-stop accessibility, coastal resilience, green infrastructure, and wetland mitigation, and she also sponsored a geothermal infrastructure bill that passed the House. Those are concrete gains on modernization, equity, accessibility, and sustainability. But the promise is broader than the delivered record shown here: the evidence does not establish full delivery on transit parity at large scale, comprehensive public-infrastructure expansion, or publicly owned internet networks. One item is also only advocacy to release funds, not proof of completed delivery. Given the breadth of the promise and the narrower scope of the documented outcomes, this is best scored as partial rather than delivered.

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