Rep. Stansbury’s $18 Million for N.M. Projects Passes the House in a Budget that Invests in American Families

Rep. Stansbury selected the projects from a pool of over 200 submission requests from across New Mexico’s First Congressional District, an unprecedented number. She shepherded the projects through the House Committee on Appropriations to ensure each of the 15 vital submissions would pass the floor. 

The 15 projects Rep. Stansbury secured include: 

Projects to Address Public Safety, Behavioral Health, and Health Care Needs  

• $410,721 for N.M. Forensic Laboratories to get fentanyl and other drugs off the street. 
• $1.5 million for Sandia Pueblo’s EMS and Fire Station to decrease response times and enhance emergency response services for the Pueblo. 
• $2.8 million for the N.M. Department of Public Safety’s Mobile Crisis Team, which will provide acute mental health crisis stabilization services in communities across the state.  
• $6.8 million to the Albuquerque Sobering Center—a facility that will be the first of its kind in Albuquerque—to divert individuals with low acuity intoxication to a safe place to gain sobriety and access treatment, housing and other needs. 
• $1 million for the First Nations Community HealthSource Behavorial Health Clinic Expansion, which will help the clinic increase its integrated services to more than 15,000 urban Indigenous community members currently without access to care. 
• $400,000 for Two Mobile School-Based Health Centers that will provide medical, dental, and mental health care services to serve over 2,500 Albuquerque Public School students and their families. 

• $300,000 for the first all-veteran transitional housing campus in New Mexico that will include 42 beds for Veterans and their families.  
• $1.5 million for the Albuquerque Homeless Youth Center to provide the first dedicated facility for youth experiencing homelessness in Albuquerque, including a safe, transitional environment for unstably housed young people. 
• $1 million for Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless to expand health care and social services.
• $875,000 to expand the East Mountain Food Pantry to help address food insecurity in the East Mountains, Torrance, and Sandoval Counties. 
• $2.5 million to the Town of Mountainair to improve its wastewater treatment facilities and address long overdue water challenges. 

• $1.5 million to the Sandoval County Animal Shelter to provide emergency veterinary care to our rural communities in Sandoval County and to grow more rural jobs and opportunities.  
• $1.5 million for UNM/Sandia Labs STEM Pipeline to expand UNM’s capacity to train the next generation of STEM leaders in cybersecurity and data science. 
• $600,000 for the Albuquerque Adult Learning Center’s adult literacy and job training programs for communities in the International District. 
• $650,000 for Families First Economic Justice Project to support the Partners for Community Action to help families, particularly in the South Valley, access capital and grow businesses. 

• Over $12.8 billion in funding for new affordable housing, critical health, safety, and maintenance improvements to ensure the safety and quality of public and low-income housing, including new support for manufactured housing, and community development activities, including $515.3 million to construct approximately 5,600 new affordable housing units for seniors and persons with disabilities, $1.7 billion in direct funding to states and local governments through the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, and increases the number of distressed neighborhoods that could be revitalized through the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative program. 
• Reduces the carbon footprint by investing more than $983 million across the Department to improve energy and water efficiency and increase resiliency in public and low-income housing 
• $31 billion for Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, a $3.7 billion increase from FY2022, including $1.1 billion to expand vouchers to more than 140,000 low-income families, including veterans, and $50 million for HUD-VASH

• The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) – The bill provides $100 million to support the storage and distribution of USDA Foods distributed through the TEFAP network of emergency feeding organizations. This is the highest ever level for the TEFAP program 
• Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) – The bill provides $6 billion in discretionary funding for WIC andvcontinues the authority to increase the amounts of fruits and vegetables in the WIC Food Package. In FY2023, WIC will serve an estimated 6.2 million women, infants, and children, including over 30,000 New Mexicans. 
• Child nutrition programs – The bill provides $28.6 billion in funding for child nutrition programs. This is an increase of $1.7 billion above the FY 2022 enacted level. This funding will support roughly 5.6 billion school lunches and snacks. In addition, the bill provides $50 million for the Summer EBT program, $40 million for school kitchen equipment grants, $10 million for school breakfast expansion grants, and $12 million for farm to school grants. 
• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – The bill provides $111.1 billion in mandatory spending for SNAP, including $3 billion for the SNAP reserve fund, which will serve more than 43.5 million people. The bill provides additional protections for SNAP recipients by providing a “such sums” appropriations for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023 to ensure SNAP does not run out of money. 
• National Hunger Clearinghouse Hotline: Resources include to support the hotline 

• $13.9 billion is for Mental Health Care, an increase of $743.8 million above the 2022 enacted level and $1.5 million above the budget request

• $274.4 million for Child Development Centers, an increase of $49.7 million over the FY2022 enacted level. These funds will support increased capacity and better facilities for the 1.2 million children of active duty servicemembers worldwide. 
• $2.1 billion for Family Housing, an increase of $168.8 million above the budget request. 

Confronts the climate crisis with more than $16 billion of transformative investments in clean energy and science, which will help develop clean, affordable, and secure American energy. 

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 

Wildland Fire Management (WFM) – The bill provides $6.43 billion for WFM, which includes $2.55 billion in cap adjusted fire suppression funding. The total funding is $762.2 million above the FY 2022 enacted level. 

• $2.88 billion for Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, $113 million above the enacted level. 

• The bill provides $451 million in additional funding for water resources projects, including those authorized in the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act. 
• The bill provides $189.3 million for WaterSMART programs, an increase of $49.8 million above the fiscal year 2022 level and $126.9 million above the request, to assist western states like New Mexico and communities as they respond to the historic drought. 
• Within additional funding, $54 million above the request is provided for rural water projects.

• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – The bill provides $4 billion, an increase of $800 million above the fiscal year 2022 level. This funding provides for clean, affordable, and secure energy and ensures American leadership in the transition to a global clean energy economy. 
• State and Community Energy Programs – The bill provides $562 million, an effective increase of $135 million above the fiscal year 2022 level. This funding will support Weatherization Assistance Program, Weatherization Readiness Fund, State Energy Program, Local Government Energy Program, and Energy Future Grants. 
• Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response – The bill provides $205 million, an increase of $19 million above the fiscal year 2022 level. This funding provides for efforts to secure the nation’s energy infrastructure against all hazards, reduce the risks of and impacts from cybersecurity events, and assist with restoration activities. 
• Electricity – The bill provides $350 million, an increase of $73 million above the fiscal year 2022 level. This funding will advance technologies to increase the resiliency and efficiency of the nation’s electricity delivery system with capabilities to incorporate growing amounts of clean energy technologies. ​

• Rural Business Development Grants: Supports program funding of $37 million 
• Rural Broadband – The legislation invests over $560 million for the expansion of broadband service to provide economic development opportunities and improved education and healthcare services. This includes $450 million for the ReConnect program. This is in addition to the $2 billion investment in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 
• Critical Infrastructure –The bill creates a 1 percent loan rate for distressed areas to make the loan more financially viable. An additional $7.9 billion in loan authority is provided for rural electric and telephone infrastructure loans.
• Rural Housing Loans and Rental Assistance – The bill provides a total of $30 billion in loan authority for the Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program. In addition, the bill includes over $1.5 billion for rental assistance and rental vouchers for affordable rental housing for low-income families and the elderly in rural communities to renew all existing rental assistance contracts, matching USDA estimates. These programs assist approximately 140,000 families.

• $336 million for Community Development Financial Institutions, an increase of $41 million above the FY 2022 enacted level. 
• Small Business Administration (SBA) – The bill provides a total of $1.1 billion for SBA, an increase of $77 million above the FY 2022 enacted level. The bill includes $326 million, an increase of $36 million above the FY 2022 enacted level, for Entrepreneurial Development Programs, including: 

• $145 million for Small Business Development Centers; 
• $41 million for Microloan Technical Assistance; 
• $23 million for the Federal and State Technology Partnership Program, Growth Accelerators, and Regional Innovation Clusters; and 
• $30 million for Women’s Business Centers.

• $2.2 billion for Bureau of Indian Affairs Operation of Indian Programs, an increase of $330 million above the FY 2022 enacted level. 
• $50 million for Indian Land Consolidation, an increase of $43 million above the FY 2022 enacted level.$181 million for Bureau of Indian Affairs Construction, an increase of $34 million above the FY 2022 enacted level.
• $14 million for the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program, an increase of $2 million above the FY 2022 enacted level. 
• $1.2 billion for Bureau of Indian Education Operation of Indian Programs, an increase of $175 million above the FY 2022 enacted level. 
• $375 million to Bureau of Indian Education Construction, an increase of $111 million above the FY 2022 enacted level.
• Fully funds Contract Support Costs and Payments for Tribal Leases. 
• $111 million for the Office of the Special Trustee, an increase of $2 million above the FY 2022 enacted level.