Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal is highlighting that the bipartisan federal funding deal he helped send to President Joe Biden’s desk for approval last week included a provision to fully fund a key nutrition program that was nearing a devastating benefits cliff: the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, otherwise known as WIC. Starting last fall, nutrition exp... Read More »
Earlier today, Congressman Salud Carbajal joined an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives in voting to advance the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, legislation aimed at severing the access that foreign governments have to American’s data via applications. At the completion of the vote, Rep. Carbajal released a video statement... Read More »
The federal funding deal signed into law by President Joe Biden last Friday includes nearly $26 million set aside for Central Coast harbors and ports to fund dredging and other upkeep work. The funding was sought by Congressman Salud Carbajal over the past year of negotiations over the federal budget for Fiscal Year 2024. “The Central Coast’s harbors and ports are central to our community’s liveli... Read More »
On Friday evening, President Joe Biden signed into law $13,446,901 in funding secured by Congressman Salud Carbajal for 14 Central Coast community projects in the 2024 government spending deal passed by Congress last week. More than $6.2 million of that funding is going to Santa Barbara County projects that Rep. Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s federal budget negotiations, ra... Read More »
On Friday evening, President Joe Biden signed into law more than $4,000,000 in funding for San Luis Obispo community projects secured by Congressman Salud Carbajal in the 2024 government spending deal approved by Congress last week. The funding is part of $13,446,901 secured by Carbajal for 14 Central Coast projects which Rep. Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s federal budget n... Read More »
On Friday evening, President Joe Biden signed into law $3,100,000 in funding for Ventura County community projects secured by Congressman Salud Carbajal in the 2024 government spending deal approved by Congress last week. The funding is part of $13,446,901 included for 14 Central Coast projects that Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s federal budget negotiations. The projects ra... Read More »
Last week, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Congressman Neal Dunn, M.D. (FL-02) joined Senator Marco Rubio (FL) and Senator Ben Ray Luján (NM) to introduce bicameral and bipartisan legislation to designate spaceports like Vandenberg Space Force Base eligible for tax-exempt municipal revenue bonds to incentivize investment in spaceport infrastructure. Projects such as airports and docks curre... Read More »
Representative Carbajal voted today to finalize $13,446,901 in funding he secured for Central Coast community projects in the 2024 government spending deal advanced by the U.S. House of Representatives. The funding, which Rep. Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s federal budget negotiations, will go towards 14 projects ranging from affordable housing construction and infrastructu... Read More »
'This Stuff Keeps Me Up Late at Night' by Nick Welsh, Santa Barbara Independent, first published March 6, 2024 https://www.independent.com/2024/03/06/this-stuff-keeps-me-up-late-at-night/ “This stuff keeps me up late at night,” declared Santa Barbara Congressmember Salud Carbajal, reflecting on the escalating violence enveloping Gaza and the Holy Land. Carbajal had just returned from a five-day tr... Read More »
Representative Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) led a call with 14 other Hispanic members of the U.S. House of Representatives today urging the Biden Administration to reverse course on a proposal that could significantly reduce air service between the United States and Mexico. In January, the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed canceling the Joint Cooperation Agreement (JCA) between Delta Air Lin... Read More »
Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) joined Congressmen Brad Schneider (IL-10) and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and 26 colleagues in voicing support for President Joe Biden’s efforts to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas to bring hostages home and provide a pause in the fighting in Gaza. Israel has agreed to the framework of such a pause but Hamas has so far rejected it. In a letter sent this week... Read More »
Representative Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) joined his House Agriculture Committee colleagues Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), Max Miller (R-Ohio), and Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) to lead 30 Members of Congress in an effort urging Agriculture Committee leaders to prioritize federal support and financial resources for specialty crop mechanization research and development in the 2024 Farm Bill. In a bipartisan ... Read More »
Today, California Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Adam Schiff (CA-30) introduced legislation to expand the Pell Grant and improve college affordability for students across California and the United States. The Degrees Not Debt Act would double the maximum Pell Grant award to $14,800, decreasing the amount of burdensome student loan debt for individuals pursuing higher education, and index t... Read More »
Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) are urging federal officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to finalize the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary with a larger footprint than the most recent federally proposed alternative, and that the final designation includes parameters that recognize the need for coexisten... Read More »
Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) announced today that affordable housing programs he has supported in Congress are awarding $3,546,190 in federal funds to construct nearly fifty new affordable housing units outside of Ojai. The funding is supporting the Camino De Salud project located at 11432 North Ventura Avenue in the Mira Monte area of unincorporated Ventura County. Once completed, Camino De... Read More »
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