{"id":4321,"date":"2019-02-14T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-statement-on-spending-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:56","slug":"merkley-statement-on-spending-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-spending-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaraci\u00f3n de Merkley sobre el acuerdo de gastos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after voting for the congressional spending deal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;This bill keeps the government open through the balance of the fiscal year. That&rsquo;s a great relief for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am very disturbed that the Homeland Security portion of this bill does not address key immigration issues, including Trump&rsquo;s string of child prisons, his internment camps, and his misuse of ICE detention to criminalize families fleeing persecution. Those are battles I will continue to fight fiercely.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The other six bills contained in this legislation have many wins for Oregon, including in the Agriculture bill I helped to write. I am proud to support those bills, which include significant victories for our state, such as:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>A $583 million increase in rental assistance funding, and a $123 million increase in Homeless Assistance grants;<\/li>\n<li>Funding for transportation and infrastructure, including an additional $549 million for clean water and sanitary waste systems in rural communities, and an increase in funding for my WIFIA program which will leverage up to $7.3 billion in low-cost loans for water infrastructure;<\/li>\n<li>Increased funding for wildfire prevention and $2.5 billion in funding for wildfire suppression, plus a $508 million emergency buffer to prevent fire borrowing if necessary;<\/li>\n<li>A massive, $550 million investment in rural broadband;<\/li>\n<li>$500 million for the PILT program, which helps fund vital services in counties with large tracts of BLM land;<\/li>\n<li>Increased funding for agricultural research;<\/li>\n<li>$25 million for irrigation modernization in Central Oregon;<\/li>\n<li>$4 million for local water efforts in the Klamath Basin, including $3.5 million to help restore healthy populations of shortnose and Lost River sucker;<\/li>\n<li>$3.5 million for mass timber research;<\/li>\n<li>$1.2 million to combat Sudden Oak Death;<\/li>\n<li>$1 million for Columbia River Basin Restoration;<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining funding for the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, which creates jobs in the woods and helps make forests more fire-resilient.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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