Baldwin Secures Over $60 Million in Direct Support for 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 $60 million in direct support for local projects across 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 Wisconsin to fund projects that will put high-quality health care within reach for more people, help people land those good-paying jobs, and put shovels in the ground to build more affordable housing. 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 48 Wisconsin projects. The following projects were funded:

Statewide

Wisconsin Technology Council: $40,000 for regional entrepreneur workshops.

Families and Schools Together (FAST): $500,000 for after school education.

Western Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin-Stout: $202,000 to expand support for entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Gunderson La Crosse Medical Center Campus: $750,000 for the renovation of a facility offering services to those coping with addiction.

Pablo Center at the Confluence: $900,000 for STEAM Education.

Family and Children's Center of Wisconsin: $1,000,000 for the construction of a mental health diagnostic center.

Vernon Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc.: $2,213,000 for the construction of a new clinic.

Southeast Wisconsin

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.

Central Wisconsin:

Northcentral Technical College: $3,207,000 for firefighter education and workforce development.

South Central Wisconsin

Prevention and Response Columbia County: $97,000 for school and afterschool-based youth prevention.

Madison Area Technical College: $660,000 to expand nursing, health, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) programs to address healthcare workforce shortages.

Foundation for Black Women's Wellness: $750,000 for programming to enhance economic security and family stability for at-risk women and families.

Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin: $970,000 for apprenticeship navigators, certified pre-apprenticeship training, and apprentice supports.

Upland Hills Health: $2,000,000 for the construction of a senior living campus.

City of Janesville: $5,000,000 for the removal of blight.

Northeastern Wisconsin

Skanikulat, Inc.: $125,000 to preserve and expand community access to the endangered Oneida language.

Boys & Girls Club Fox Valley, Inc.: $1,000,000 to support mental and behavioral health issues, with an emphasis on at-risk youth.

Green Bay Metro Fire Department: $5,000,000 for the construction of a new fire station.

Veterans 1st of NEW: $480,000 for the construction of affordable housing.

Northern Wisconsin

Bayfield County: $300,000 to establish a Rural First Responders Lift Assist Team.

GLITC Adolescent Wellness Recovery Center: $4,700,000 to establish a 36-bed residential center supporting Native American youth with opioid addiction and co-occurring mental behavioral health conditions.

Boys & Girls Club of the Northwoods: $1,000,000 to expand facilities.

Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity: $500,000 for the construction of affordable housing.

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