WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced that they secured $3,600,000 in federal funding for critical local water infrastructure projects across Western New York in the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Interior spending bill that is expected to pass in the House of Representatives later today and sent to the Senate. The senators personally secured funding for these projects as congressionally directed spending requests. Schumer in 2024 stood at an active lead pipe site in Erie County to push for this federal funding so Erie County (https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/standing-at-an-active-lead-pipe-replacement-si...