Federal money for VFW posts
What they say
His campaign says he delivered federal funding to update local Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, so veterans and community members have safe spaces to gather.
“He delivered federal funding to update local Veterans of Foreign Wars posts”
What the record shows ·
The explanatory statements for three years' appropriations laws each list a VFW post project with him as the House requester. For fiscal 2022, $304,454 for the Brooks County VFW, the Lopez Williams Post, from the Agriculture Department's rural community facilities account (page H1729). For fiscal 2023, $750,000 for a new building for Post 8788 (page S9538), and for fiscal 2024, $850,000 for a new building for Post 2410 (page S2158), both from HUD's Community Development Fund. The three laws are Public Laws 117-103, 117-328 and 118-42, and the three rows come to $1,904,454.
Limit: Three posts in three years, each in an enacted statement with his name in the House requester column, which is where a member's community project funding is recorded. Two of the three paid for new buildings rather than updates to old ones. The statements allocate the money; whether USDA and HUD have paid it out was not checked. Two of the three tables are printed as page images, so those rows were read by eye.