{"id":181404,"date":"2026-02-26T15:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181404\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:33:06","slug":"appropriations-congresswoman-veronica-escobar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181404\/","title":{"rendered":"Appropriations | Congresswoman Veronica Escobar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Congress is responsible for allocating overall funding for offices, programs, and grants administered by the federal government. As your Representative in Congress, Rep. Escobar has the opportunity to advocate on behalf of programs that are important to Texas\u2019 16th Congressional District. For example, Rep. Escobar can advocate to maintain or increase the total funding for federal grants, agencies, and programs that support El Paso\u2019s infrastructure and transportation priorities, Fort Bliss\u2019 defense needs, and the health, safety, and and economic prosperity of all El Pasoans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/escobar.house.gov\/appropriations\/appropriations-requests.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiscal Year &#8217;27 Appropriations Requests &#8211;<\/a>\u00a0Please use this page to submit Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26)\u00a0general programmatic and language appropriations requests\u00a0to Representative Escobar&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/escobar.house.gov\/appropriations\/cpf-requests.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiscal Year &#8217;27 Community Project Funding Requests &#8211;<\/a>\u00a0Community Project Funding\u00a0requests are in addition to the general programmatic and language-based requests.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/escobar.house.gov\/appropriations\/previous-cpfs.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Previous Community Project Funding Requests &#8211;<\/a>\u00a0Since the start of Community Projects Funding in Fiscal Year 2022, I have been able to secure funding for 51 community projects, bringing back to El Paso nearly $71 million directly to our cities and towns, our schools, our universities, nonprofits, and companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year, Congress is responsible for allocating overall funding for offices, programs, and grants administered by the federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-181404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}