{"id":153324,"date":"2026-03-05T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153324\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:00:16","slug":"rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-secures-over-11-million-for-bronx-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153324\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez secures over $11 million for Bronx projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Representative\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez secured more than $14 million in federal funding for 15 community projects across New York\u2019s 14th congressional district for fiscal year 2026, including over $11 million dedicated to 11 projects in the Bronx. The funding targets improvements to food access, education and environmental resilience across the district.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The projects were approved by the House Appropriations Committee through H.R. 6938 and H.R. 7148. under the Community Project Funding process, which allows members of Congress to request funding for a limited number of local initiatives that fall within the criteria of funding.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/aoc-secures-over-11-million-for-bronx-projects\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez secures over $11 million for Bronx projects &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Representative\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez secured more than $14 million in federal funding for 15 community projects across New York\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[878,128,34255,1882,858,4739,54042,32213,9,24,63,4494,63617,49520,129,131,130,11385],"class_list":{"0":"post-153324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-coastal-resiliency","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-congress","13":"tag-federal-funding","14":"tag-house-appropriations-committee","15":"tag-hunts-point-market","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-ocasio-cortez","20":"tag-oyster","21":"tag-stevenson-high-school","22":"tag-the-bronx","23":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","24":"tag-the-bronx-news","25":"tag-waterfront"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}