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I was glad to join Gateway Community Development Corporation, HOPE Enterprise Corporation, and community leaders in Yazoo City for the ribbon-cutting of Roberts Estates.   The $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has given families the opportunity to become homeowners and build a future in their community.   Thank you to Gateway CDC and everyone who helped make this project possible.

Rural Florida is an integral part of our state.  The Community Development Block Grant awards I announced today will support necessary infrastructure improvements in a dozen small and rural communities in our state’s heartland. Not only do these investments generate financial returns for our state, but they also expand opportunities for the people of rural Florida to thrive where their families have lived for generations.

COSLA Health and Social Care Spokesperson, @cllrpaulkelly, visiting the Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust in Rutherglen today. This visit coincided with today's NRS probable suicides 2025 in Scotland publication. Read more here:

I was proud to present a $2.9 million U.S. Department of Labor RESTART grant to the West Jackson Community Development Corporation. This investment will help individuals returning to their communities access job training, apprenticeships, and employment opportunities as they work toward a fresh start. Thank you to all our community partners for their commitment to building stronger communities through second chances.

This morning in Bonifay, I was pleased to announce more than $8.8 million in funding for critical infrastructure and community development projects in 12 small and rural Florida communities. These Community Development Block Grant awards will help improve water and wastewater systems, stormwater infrastructure, roads, and workforce housing. These investments promote long-term economic growth that will help rural Florida families thrive for many years to come.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act carried a $1.2 trillion price tag and a noble-sounding name. Congress passed it in November 2021, Biden signed it, and the press celebrated. Roads, bridges, broadband. The whole sales pitch. What actually landed in the bill tells a different story. Genuine infrastructure spending, the kind that moves physical goods and connects people to markets, accounted for roughly $110 billion of that $1.2 trillion. Roads and bridges got $40 billion in new money. Passenger and freight rail received $66 billion. Broadband pulled another $65 billion. Add it up, and you are still well under 20% of the total, and the real figure for hard infrastructure sits closer to 10% once you strip out programs that would have passed in any normal appropriations cycle. The remaining $1.1 trillion went to things Congress rebranded as infrastructure. Workforce development, climate resilience programs, electric vehicle subsidies, community development block grants. This is how Washington operates. Take a word the public trusts, attach it to everything in the hopper, and dare anyone to vote against "roads and bridges." The label launders the spending. You pay for it through deficit financing that the Federal Reserve then monetizes, which erodes your purchasing power as reliably as a direct tax, just less visibly. No federal agency holds the information needed to allocate capital better than private investors who face actual profit and loss. Amtrak lost money on food service alone for thirty consecutive years before anyone noticed. The bill does not fix one pothole more efficiently because Amtrak now has $22 billion to spend. No government builds infrastructure. They pass the actual work to their connected cronies in the private sector, after taking their cut. At least we know Biden actually signed this in person.👇