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Council reviews draft FY27 federal priorities: housing, transportation, workforce, earmarks

Montgomery County Council (work session) · February 23, 2026

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Summary

County staff presented the draft FY27 federal priorities letter and list of earmark requests covering housing modernization, federal workforce protections for HHS institutions, immigration reform language, transportation funding (including a BUILD application for Lake Forest and WMATA indexing), health-and-human-services concerns and a list of earmark projects; council asked for edits, more education items, and asked staff to finalize the draft for next week's consent agenda.

Staff from the Office of Intergovernmental Relations reviewed the county's draft FY27 federal priorities letter and the FY27 earmark request list. The memo covers housing (calling for modernization of federal programs and local flexibility), federal workforce protections for HHS institutions in the county, immigration (a request that Congress move toward…

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