Reminder: Contact your Senator Now to Sign on in Support of a $324 million FY 27 Appropriation for the CDFI Fund
Senators Warner (D-VA), Crapo (R-ID), and Daines (R-MT) are leading a bipartisan effort to send a Dear Colleague letter to the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Senate Appropriations Subcommittee requesting $324 million for the CDFI Fund in FY 27.
The letter also includes support for bill language that addresses timely obligation of funds. This would ensure that problems we are currently experiencing with FY 25 funds on hold would not occur in the future.
TAKE ACTION: We need your help to contact your Members of Congress and ask them to sign on to Senators' Dear Colleague letter. The deadline is April 14th.
Current FY 27 Signers (11): Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Sen. John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO), Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Sen. Angus King (I-ME), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
Please reach out to any Senators representing the states your CDFI serves. If you need assistance finding the appropriate congressional staff contacts, you can use this list or reach out to madison@rapoza.org.
A draft for congressional offices is available, which can be viewed here.
Offices can cosign using this Quill Link.
For questions they can contact Nicholas_Larsen@warner.senate.gov , Riley_OLeary@daines.senate.gov , or Matthew_Favero@crapo.senate.gov .
**Please note, Quill links are only accessible to Hill Staff so it will show an error for you, but the link will work for them. **
We recommend reaching out to signers from last year and members of the Senate Community Development Finance Caucus as a start. Contact Lists for both are available below as well as the overall Appropriations Staff contact spreadsheet for ANY Senator on our website. (Please note this list is for ALL Senators and provides the member of their staff that works on Appropriations issues, it is not limited to Senators who are on the Appropriations Committee).
However, outreach is NOT LIMITED to these lists! Please reach out to all your Senators and ask them to sign on. If you need contact information that is not on a list, please reach out to madison@rapoza.org.
FY 26 Signers (31): Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV), Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), Sen. Angus King (I-ME), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT), Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
