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WASHINGTON – Rep. Jeff Hurd secured $11,007,000 in federal funding for thirteen projects across Colorado’s Third District throughout the FY26 Appropriations process. These bills provide critical resources for water infrastructure, rural healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and public safety departments. The funding addresses longstanding infrastructure and public safety needs in rural communities throughout the district.
WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, Reps. Hurd (CO-03), Tran (CA-45), and Dean (PA-04) introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent youth substance use. The Youth Substance Prevention and Awareness Act would allow federal grants to fund evidence-based public service announcement (PSA) campaigns designed to educate young people about the dangers of substance abuse.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jeff Hurd and a bipartisan group of 35 total House Members, co-led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Jen Kiggans (VA-2), announced a new health care framework, CommonGround 2025. This bipartisan framework includes a two-year extension of health insurance premium savings for American families, including a year of the enhanced Premium Tax Credits (ePTCs), with targeted modifications, to be voted on by December 18, 2025, in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON — Today, Congressmen Jeff Hurd (R-CO), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Don Bacon (R-NE), and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) co-led the introduction of the Bipartisan Healthcare Optimization, Protection, and Extension (HOPE) Act. This bill would address the healthcare affordability crisis by extending the enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) for two years and adding new income caps and guardrails against fraud in the process.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Jeff Hurd (R-CO), Don Bacon (R-NE), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) released a statement of principles for lowering health care costs and temporarily extending and reforming the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits (APTCs). The principles focus on a temporary extension with reasonable income caps and reform.
Hurd, Bacon, Suozzi, and Gottheimer released the following quote:
Washington, D.C. — This week, Rep. Jeff Hurd (CO-03) co-sponsored the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act, a bill to protect Colorado families, seniors, and small business owners from massive health care premium increases.