Tens of millions of federal dollars for community projects will not be sent to Southwest and Southside Virginia, or anywhere in the state for that matter, this year.
Congress passed a continuing resolution in mid-March to fund the government through September and avoid a shutdown, the third such measure in fiscal year 2025. That action will round out a full 12 months of federal funding through stop-gap measures for the fiscal year.
Federal funding that was negotiated in the House and Senate appropriations committees in 2024 for dozens of community infrastructure projects in Southwest and Southside Virginia was halted as a result. Those earmarks could have been included in a federal spending bill if Congress had adopted a budget for the 2025 fiscal year…