I will seek $2,000,000 in federal Community Project Funding to replace Magnolia's 1928-era water storage tank to improve fire protection, water pressure, and service reliability.

Sarah McBride · Delaware · Democratic

spending impact 0.55 specificity 0.88 extraction confidence 80%

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

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Town of Magnolia Water Storage Tower Amount: $2,000,000 Description: Funding will replace a 1928-era water tank to improve fire protection, water pressure, and service reliability for 325 customers and 12,600 residents in the broader district.

McBride listed a FY26 Community Project Funding request for $2 million to replace Magnolia's aging water tank.

Community Project Funding Fiscal Year 2026 | Congresswoman Sarah Mcbride
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Evidence

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The official U.S. House website for Rep. Sarah McBride lists Services > Project Funding Disclosures > Funding Requests FY26 and links that item to https://mcbride.house.gov/community-project-funding-fy26.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): McBride maintained an official FY2026 Community Project Funding disclosure page during her first House term, which is consistent with making FY2026 CPF requests, but the accessible homepage text does not itself identify the Magnolia water-tank project or the $2,000,000 amount.

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Congresswoman Sarah Mcbride | Representing the people of Delaware
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Public Law 119-74 appropriated FY2026 EPA State and Tribal Assistance Grants funds and states that specified STAG Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and Clean Water State Revolving Fund projects are in the table titled "Interior and Environment Incorporation of Community Project Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items" in the explanatory statement.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted FY2026 appropriations law created/continued the federal vehicle that could fund drinking-water CPF projects. The law text confirms CPF/STAG drinking-water projects were incorporated by reference, but the searchable public-law text did not identify the Town of Magnolia project by name.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Public Law 119-74, Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
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The Congressional Record text of H.R. 6938 says $715,364,627 of Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants shall be for construction of drinking water, wastewater, and storm water infrastructure and for projects specified for STAG--Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and STAG--Clean Water State Revolving Fund in the Interior and Environment CPF/CDS table.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The House-passed text confirms FY2026 CPF/CDS drinking-water infrastructure funds moved through H.R. 6938 during McBride's term. It supports concrete legislative progress on the relevant funding channel, though it does not by itself prove the specific Magnolia $2,000,000 request was included or enacted.

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Congressional Record, January 8, 2026, House consideration of H.R. 6938
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The Town is pleased to announce that our Federal application for infrastructure funding through our Congressional delegation of Representative Sarah McBride, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester and Senator Chris Coons was successful and the Town was awarded $1,200,000 towards the Town’s proposed new water tower.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Magnolia’s official town site reports that its federal infrastructure application through Rep. McBride and Delaware’s senators succeeded and produced a $1.2 million award toward the proposed new water tower. This post is the most concrete recent official project-status update found, though it predates the August 16, 2026 lookback window.

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Water Department News Items #1 and #2 - Town of Magnolia - Delaware
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Coupled with $119,800 from the State of Delaware Community Redevelopment-Reinvestment Fund in FY2026, an additional $300,000 from the same fund in FY 2027, and $120,000 from the Town’s Transfer Tax account, we are only $260,000 shy of the needed $2,000,000 for the tower.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The same official town notice ties the federal award to Magnolia’s $2 million water-tower need, confirming the federal funding related to the specific tower project described in the commitment.

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Water Department News Items #1 and #2 - Town of Magnolia - Delaware
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unverified · Source version 66134 · locator unknown

The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the House section of the Congressional Record on or about January 21, 2026, and submitted by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations of the House, shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of divisions A through D of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Public Law 119-75 gives legal effect to the explanatory statement for divisions including Division D, the Transportation-HUD appropriations division that contains the relevant HUD Community Development Fund CPF table.

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PLAW-119publ75.pdf
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unverified · Source version 66136 · locator unknown

<td>Department of Housing and Urban Development</td><td>Community Development Fund</td><td>Town of Magnolia</td><td>Town of Magnolia Water Storage Tower Infrastructure Improvements</td><td>DE</td><td>1,200,000</td><td>McBride</td><td>Blunt Rochester</td><td>H</td>

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official Congressional Record CPF/CDS table identifies the Town of Magnolia water storage tower project, places it in HUD Community Development Fund, lists $1,200,000, and names McBride as a House requester.

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CREC-2026-01-22-bk2.pdf
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unverified · Source version 66134 · locator unknown

$3,615,244,120 shall be available for grants for the economic development initiative (EDI) for the purposes, and in amounts, specified for Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending in the table entitled ‘‘Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included for this division in the explanatory statement described in section 4

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted appropriations law makes HUD EDI funds available for CPF/CDS projects in the legally incorporated table, tying the Magnolia table entry to enacted federal funding authority.

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PLAW-119publ75.pdf
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): delivered. same_term

The promise was to seek, not necessarily secure, $2,000,000 in federal Community Project Funding for Magnolia's 1928-era water storage tank. Rep. McBride's official FY2026 Community Project Funding disclosure page lists the Town of Magnolia Water Storage Tower request at $2,000,000 and describes replacing the 1928-era tank to improve fire protection, water pressure, and service reliability. That is the promised federal CPF request made during her current House term.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 93%