{"id":392,"date":"2026-07-21T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/?p=392"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:01:47","slug":"de-la-cruz-and-lutnick-deliver-6-million-grant-to-mcallen-for-industrial-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/de-la-cruz-and-lutnick-deliver-6-million-grant-to-mcallen-for-industrial-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"De La Cruz and Lutnick Deliver $6 Million Grant to McAllen for Industrial Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz announced a $6 million Economic Development Administration grant to the City of McAllen to expand infrastructure at its industrial park, a project officials expect will attract private investment and create close to 500 jobs. The award is paired with $34 million in private investment, and background released with the announcement noted she has helped secure more than $50 million in federal resources since taking office and has requested more than $40 million for projects across the district for fiscal year 2027. She appeared alongside Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to make the announcement.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/texasborderbusiness.com\/de-la-cruz-and-lutnick-deliver-6-million-grant-to-mcallen-for-industrial-expansion\/\">Texas Border Business<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz announced a $6 million Economic Development Administration grant to the City of McAllen to expand infrastructure at its industrial park, a project officials expect will attract private investment and create close to 500 jobs. The award is paired with $34 million in private investment, and background released with the announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}