Congressman Dan Kildee spearheads $5 million funding call for Flint registry

Washington — Congressman Dan Kildee, along with the entire bipartisan Michigan congressional delegation, recently called on the Biden administration to include $5 million for the Flint Registry in the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget, which outlines the administration’s funding priorities.

“The Flint Registry is a powerful tool to improve the lives of those exposed to lead-contaminated water,” the letter reads. “Flint’s water crisis is not an anomaly, it is a warning to other communities that we must get more serious about removing lead from our communities. As a built public health infrastructure asset, the Flint Registry continues to serve as a recovery model for impacted communities across the country that suffer disparately from preventable lead exposure.”

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In 2016, Congress created and funded the Flint Registry to help respond to the city’s water crisis. The Flint Registry is a community-based effort to identify individuals exposed to lead during the crisis and improve their health and development through connections to health care and other resources.

Since its establishment, Congressman Kildee has secured over $34 million for the registry.

For more information, please contact Mitchell Rivard at 989-450-2534, or Mitchell.Rivard@mail.house.gov.