{"id":10236,"date":"2021-11-22T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=10236"},"modified":"2021-11-30T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:52:26","slug":"following-sen-ossoff-push-u-s-house-passes-increased-funding-for-community-health-centers","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/following-sen-ossoff-push-u-s-house-passes-increased-funding-for-community-health-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Sen. Ossoff Push, U.S. House Passes Increased Funding for Community Health Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>Following U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s push,the U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to surge funding to community health centers in Georgia and nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-pushing-congress-to-include-additional-funding-for-georgia-community-health-centers-in-budget-reconciliation-bill\/\">called<\/a>&nbsp;for additional funding for community health centers in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will keep fighting to boost funding for Georgia\u2019s clinics and community health centers because every Georgian deserves the best health care in the world and our medical teams need our full support, especially during this pandemic,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Build Back Better Act<\/em>&nbsp;will boost funding for clinics and community health centers affected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-over-143-million-for-georgias-35-community-health-centers\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;$143 million for Georgia community health centers to aid in recovery from the pandemic and allow the centers to continue to provide local communities with health care services and vaccine distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;Following U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s push,the U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to surge funding to community health centers in Georgia and nationwide. Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;called&nbsp;for additional funding for community health centers in September. \u201cI will keep fighting to boost funding for Georgia\u2019s clinics and community health centers because every Georgian deserves the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10236","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10238,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10236\/revisions\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}