Community projects: $60 million
What they say
His campaign says he secured more than $60 million for Southern Arizona community projects in his first three years. In the September 10 debate, he described directing funding to hospital emergency rooms and renovations, and to fire, police and other first responders.
What the record shows ·
Community project money is listed by project, amount and requesting member in the statements filed with each spending law, not in the laws themselves. The fiscal 2024 statements name him as House requester of 13 projects, $26,633,927 in all. The fiscal 2026 statements name him on 15 more, $34,239,522, including $2,000,000 for the Bisbee-Douglas International Airport, which his campaign names. Together that is 28 projects and $60,873,449. Arizona's senators also requested 17 of them. Fiscal 2025 was funded by a full-year stopgap with no new projects. The final FY2024 Agriculture table includes $859,000 for Northern Cochise Community Hospital improvements, requested by Ciscomani and Senator Kelly, and $2 million for Pima’s multipurpose building. His office’s project memo describes structural upgrades to the hospital’s main entrance and Emergency Department, and a fire station and community-use facility in Pima. The already-counted first-responder rows include Pima County radio replacement and Marana crime-scene scanning in FY2024, and Sahuarita police radios and Tucson police vehicles in FY2026.
Limit: The total counts every project that names him as House requester, including those the senators also asked for. $33,899,473 of it came in two laws signed in late January and early February 2026, weeks after his third year ended, from requests made in 2025. The matching record here is the qualified appropriated total and these named funding examples. They are not added to the $60,873,449 total again. The hospital and Pima purpose details are his office’s account linked to final appropriation rows. They do not establish every hospital referent, payment, completed renovations, better capacity or faster first-responder service.