Delivering for the District

Since I took office, a total of $24,728,955,959 in federal investment has come into the 17th in the form of grants, contracts, and other federal funding flowing to our neighborhoods and the industries building what comes next. That figure is the full picture of federal dollars the district has won since 2017, tracked through the U.S. Treasury’s database. Most of it is the everyday work of a federal government investing in one of the most innovative places on earth.

Among that investment are four landmark laws that I worked on. I want to walk through each one: what it delivered here in the 17th, and what I fought for to make it happen.

Year after year, the investment brought home:

2017: $858,299,344 (about $858 million)

2018: $2,068,722,519 ($2.1 billion)

2019: $3,411,134,913 ($3.4 billion)

2020: $2,812,710,636 ($2.8 billion)

2021: $3,020,534,391 ($3 billion)

2022: $4,604,069,847 ($4.6 billion)

2023: $3,277,136,921 ($3.3 billion)

2024: $2,094,758,845 ($2.1 billion)

2025: $1,822,714,575 ($1.8 billion)

2026: about $759 million (and we’re only partway through the fiscal year)

Total since 2017—$24,728,955,959 (24.7 billion)

I helped work on consequential legislation and brought home investment to the 17th. The American Rescue Plan Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act were transformative pieces of legislation that helped our district.

• Inflation Reduction Act: roughly $608 million — an estimated $607.9M in clean-energy tax credits for district residents and businesses, plus $742,500 for renewable-fuel projects in Cupertino.

• American Rescue Plan Act: $595.2 million — $280.1M in contracts and $61.4M in grants into the 17th (for what), plus $253.7M in direct payments and loans to families and small businesses.

• CHIPS and Science Act: roughly $86 million — $37 million in awards to two district companies (which ones), plus an estimated $49.2M through the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit.

• Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: $90.2 million — $82.7M in grants and $7.5M in contracts to rebuild the district’s roads, transit, water, and broadband.

The Inflation Reduction Act: I spent over a year negotiating the IRA. Working in tandem with Senator Joe Manchin and climate advocates, I fought to keep its clean-energy provisions in the final deal. Here at home, it funded a $742,500 project in Cupertino to expand renewable-fuel infrastructure. By our office’s own estimate, built on Congressional Research Service analysis, it has delivered roughly $607.9 million in clean-energy tax credits to district residents and businesses: rooftop solar, electric vehicles, home-efficiency upgrades, and the advanced-energy manufacturing that’s the future of American industry.

The American Rescue Plan Act: During the economic panic brought on by COVID, ARPA brought $280.1 million in federal contracts and $61.4 million in grants into the 17th, plus $253.7 million in direct payments and loans to our families and small businesses. The marquee: iHealth Labs in San Jose won a $166.95 million contract to manufacture the rapid COVID-19 tests millions of American families used to stay safe. Cepheid in Sunnyvale ($47.2M) and Visby Medical in San Jose ($25.5M) landed major contracts of their own. The 17th became the country’s diagnostics arsenal. ARPA emergency relief delivered $25.1 million to Foothill–De Anza Community College District in Cupertino, keeping thousands of our students enrolled when many knew they couldn’t afford tuition.

The CHIPS and Science Act: I’m proud to say this one started with my work. I co authored the Endless Frontier Act with Senator Schumer, Senator Young, and Rep. Gallagher, the bill that became the foundation of the CHIPS and Science Act. As its lead House sponsor, I fought to get it across the finish line and stood beside President Biden as he signed it into law. It’s delivering in the 17th: $37 million in awards to two district companies. Eridan Communications received $36.8 million to strengthen America’s wireless supply chain, announced by the Commerce Department’s NTIA, and PrimeNano received $259,848 to commercialize next-generation chip-measurement technology, awarded through NIST. By our office’s own estimate, roughly $49.2 million more has flowed to the district through the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: The bipartisan infrastructure law I voted to pass is rebuilding the 17th from the ground up: $82.7 million in grants and $7.5 million in contracts, for the roads, transit, water systems, and broadband our communities rely on every day.

Community Project Funding:

Congress brought back Community Project Funding for FY2022, giving Members of Congress a direct way to fund specific local projects, and I’ve secured millions for the district every year since. I work directly with my constituents and community leaders to identify the critical points that need funding. This has covered everything from safer streets, parks and trails, transit, shelters for homeless veterans, and workforce centers for our school districts. I take these requests to Washington and fight to get them funded. So far, that’s $64,528,279 for 51 projects across the 17th. This is money I requested and won by name, on top of the federal investment above.

Here’s what each community has received:

San Jose: $12,558,279

Santa Clara County: $12,217,000

Sunnyvale: $9,772,000

Santa Clara: $8,280,000

Milpitas: $7,750,000

Fremont: $5,700,000

Newark: $3,850,000

Cupertino: $3,401,000

Alameda County: $1,000,000

Money Back in Your Pocket

The bills I stewarded showed up in your pockets, too. The American Rescue Plan I helped pass put money back into households across the 17th through stimulus checks when families needed them, a bigger child tax credit, and lower health insurance premiums. Every figure below is our office’s own estimate, built on the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service’s analysis of IRS data.

Stimulus payments: about $542.2 million in 2021

ACA health insurance premium credit: $155 million in 2021 (about $103 million before ARPA expanded it)

Child Tax Credit: roughly $50 million more in 2021, when the expanded credit was in effect

Charitable deduction: $40.6 million in charitable contributions deducted under an ARPA provision

Child and dependent care credit: about $7.4 million more in 2021

Earned income tax credit: about $6.5 million more in 2021

Paid family and medical leave credit: about $1.8 million in 2021

When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in March 2023, it put our district’s economy on the line overnight. Startups suddenly couldn’t reach the cash to make payroll, small businesses and nonprofits across Silicon Valley faced losing the deposits they relied on, and the panic threatened to spread to regional banks nationwide. That weekend I convened hundreds of local founders and community leaders to hear firsthand what was at stake, then pressed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, privately and on national television, to guarantee every deposit before markets opened Monday. I pushed for full protection instead of the partial backstop regulators were weighing, and by Sunday evening the government committed to insuring all deposits, keeping payrolls whole for the small businesses, startups, and nonprofits that had done nothing to cause the crisis.

I do this work because I believe America is strongest when it builds: when we make things here, invest in the industries that will define the next century, and refuse to write off any community as someone else’s problem.

The 17th shows there’s a better way. These investments came from a decision to bet on American workers and American innovation.