The story is becoming too familiar.

Lawmakers who support spending cuts, then call for their reversal. Lawmakers who want to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse, just not in the program that is politically beneficial to them.

U.S. Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., has joined several Senate colleagues in a letter that seeks the disbursement of already-approved Community Development Financial Institutions funds.

To be fair, some of the federal actions seem designed to force elected officials to beg for the help they pledged to their constituents. In this case, $324 million from the fund was approved for more than 1,400 such institutions around the country in the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act of 2025.

” … The CDFI Fund has proven critical to the CDFI sector’s success and ha

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