Cuellar: We tried to bypass Austin to get deserved federal funds to the border region
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas – U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says he has looked into ways of bypassing Austin so that federal funds can go straight from Washington, D.C., to the South Texas border region.
Cuellar said he and others looked into the feasibility of such a maneuver after the state leadership in Austin kept funds back that should have been going to counties in his congressional district.
“We tried so hard to do that (bypass Austin),” Cuellar said. “Whereby it (federal funding ) would come through a CDBG formula directly to the counties but unfortunately we could not get that.”
CDBG stands for Community Development Block Grants.
“There are states like to Texas that are controlled by Republicans where we have that concern (of netting get our fair share of federal funds),” Cuellar said. “But, there are (Democratic controlled) states like New York and California where they said, no, we want it to come directly to our state so we can distribute it. We were trying to do that (bypass Austin) very, very hard.”
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