{"id":8513,"date":"2021-09-28T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=8513"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T14:35:00","slug":"sens-warnock-ossoff-secure-100-million-authorization-for-ft-stewart-barracks-construction-in-ndaa","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-warnock-ossoff-secure-100-million-authorization-for-ft-stewart-barracks-construction-in-ndaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Warnock &amp; Ossoff Secure $100 Million Authorization for Ft. Stewart Barracks Construction in NDAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>New housing facility will accommodate 372 soldiers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have secured a $100 million authorization in the&nbsp;<em>National Defense Authorization Act<\/em>&nbsp;for the construction of a new permanent party barracks facility at Georgia\u2019s Ft. Stewart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the passage of the NDAA, the new housing facility will accommodate 372 soldiers at Ft. Stewart to ensure modern and safe housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are delivering for the Ft. Stewart community with this investment in new barracks for our soldiers,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Sen. Ossoff said<\/strong>. \u201cSen. Rev. Warnock and I will continue working side-by-side to improve housing for military personnel in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud to help secure funding for new housing for our soldiers at Ft. Stewart, and I\u2019ll keep fighting to direct more federal investments to our state\u2019s military installations,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said Sen. Reverend Warnock.<\/strong>\u201cGeorgia is a proud military state, and our servicemembers deserve a safe and stable environment to call home for all they do on behalf of our families and nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues to serve as a tireless advocate for Georgia\u2019s servicemembers and military installations. Earlier this year, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/watch-sen-ossoff-secures-pledge-from-biden-nominee-to-support-military-base-housing-improvements-at-ft-benning-and-ft-gordon-complete-deepening-of-port-of-savannah\/\">secured<\/a>&nbsp;a pledge from a Biden Administration nominee to support military base housing improvements at Ft. Benning and Ft. Gordon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, Sen. Ossoff also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfxg.com\/story\/44317169\/sen-ossoff-to-return-to-fort-gordon-meet-with-senior-leadership\">visited<\/a>&nbsp;Ft. Gordon \u2014 a second time since his swearing in \u2014 to meet with senior leadership and junior enlisted personnel to discuss housing on post and pledged to work with the post to make improvements to on-post housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New housing facility will accommodate 372 soldiers Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have secured a $100 million authorization in the&nbsp;National Defense Authorization Act&nbsp;for the construction of a new permanent party barracks facility at Georgia\u2019s Ft. Stewart. With the passage of the NDAA, the new housing facility will accommodate 372 soldiers [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8513","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/8513","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\/8513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/8513\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}