Jessica Forgy

Taxes / Budget

Funding our country does need to take an examination of the departments by using auditors to help identify areas of mis-appropriation, and areas where the government services can be streamlined and made more accessible to ordinary citizens. This can be done without cutting essential services such as Medicaid, and SNAP, and NIH funding, without cutting USAID and PEPFAR. We need to look at responsible levying of taxes to have sufficient revenue to run the government that works for all people. And we may need to reconsider the corporate subsidies that we pay out. Learn more

I will fight for funding and resources for the organizations that work for the people and help keep us safe such as NOAA, the NHC, the NWS, the CDC and FDA, and that the grants needed to run local services continue to be funded such as local Flooding Risk Reduction Plans, Health Departments, and Housing among others. The lack of a new FEMA plan, and a FEMA run without doing drills, and delays in dispersing funds to other disasters this year make me especially worried this Hurricane Season, not just for my district, but for everyone in an area at risk to Hurricanes. Learn more