Baldwin Secures Over $32 Million in Direct Support for 26 Projects in Southeast Wisconsin in Government Funding Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, voted to pass a bipartisan government funding bill that includes over $32 million in direct support for local projects across Southeast Wisconsin. Included in the government funding package is support for projects that help Wisconsinites get good, affordable health care, connect Wisconsinites with job training and good-paying jobs, and build more affordable housing. Senator Baldwin also successfully spearheaded the effort to stop President Trump's misguided attempt to cut funding from public education, slash cancer and other disease research, and scale back opioid and addiction services. Today, the House of Representatives passed this legislation and now awaits the President's signature.

"At a time when costs are rising, and families are struggling to make ends meet, I fought hard to bring home investments to address their kitchen table issues and our communities' most pressing problems," said Senator Baldwin. "I worked closely with communities across Southeast Wisconsin to fund projects that will put high-quality health care within reach for more people, support our small businesses and entrepreneurs, and give more families the chance to buy a home. I am also proud to have stopped President Trump's efforts to make deep cuts to education funding, slash cancer and other disease research, and take us a step back in our fight in the opioid epidemic."

The bipartisan government funding package includes Senator Baldwin's bill to fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Senator Baldwin's bipartisan bill rejects the Trump Administration's effort to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), public schools, and addiction and mental health care, while putting up strong guardrails to ensure funding is spent as intended and without delay. The bill also sets a two-week deadline to negotiate a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that delivers accountability and puts commonsense guardrails on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The funding package included direct support for 26 projects in Southeast Wisconsin. The following projects were funded:

Hmong Chamber Innovation Hub: $1,687,000 for business development programming.

Sherman Phoenix Foundation - Pheonix Rise MKE: $959,000 to expand entrepreneurship and small business support services.

City of Whitewater: $85,000 for an immigrant liaison.

STRYV365: $100,000 for trauma-informed programs for youth, including direct services, mentoring, and professional development for youth-serving organizations.

United Way of Kenosha County: $278,000 for childhood literacy programming.

Milwaukee Jewish Federation: $312,000 for education to prevent antisemitism.

4^th Dimension Sobriety: $400,000 to support and expand staffing, support a second and expanded year of restorative community implementation, peer support services training and an expansion of services for women.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Nursing: $400,000 for the construction of a rehabilitation gym and lab simulation space.

Milwaukee Area Technical College: $500,000 for a higher education scholarship.

West Care Wisconsin: $600,000 for a mobile mental health clinic.

Iron Workers Local Union No. 8 Joint Apprenticeship and Advanced Journeyman Training Trust Fund: $700,000 to purchase equipment for their training program.

Concordia University, Inc.: $753,000 to improve current nursing facilities to increase enrollment to address workforce shortages.

Employ Milwaukee: $900,000 for youth career exploration.

Walworth County: $1,000,000 to renovate a vacant 30-bed skilled nursing unit to function as a Community Based Residential Facility (CBRF).

Moraine Park Technical College: $1,325,000 to acquire robotics equipment to train students for modern manufacturing environments.

Medical College of Wisconsin: $1,600,000 to Acquire positron emission tomography (PET) equipment.

Marquette University School of Dentistry (MUSOD): $2,000,000 for a Digital dentistry and simulation center.

Versiti: $3,000,000 for the Construction of the Versiti Blood Research Institute.

Racine County: $5,000,000 for the construction of a mental health facility.

YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee: $4,000,000 for the construction of health commons facility.

City of Kenosha: $3,000,000 to construct affordable housing.

Communities of Crocus: $1,500,000 to construct affordable housing.

Acts Housing: $1,000,000 for the acquisition of affordable housing.

Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha and Jefferson Counties: $500,000 for the construction of affordable housing.

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD): $250,000 for a schoolyard renovation.

Ozaukee Food Alliance: $246,000 to acquire a mobile food pantry.

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