WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the midst of a heated re-election campaign, U.S. Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) is claiming credit for securing more than $30 million in federal funding for his constituents to address water infrastructure, public safety, military readiness and other concerns.
Those proposed funding measures are including in Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations recently passed by the House Budget Committee, of which Moore is a member.
More than $7 million of those funds are earmarked for projects here in the northern Utah area, according to a recent press release from the congressman’s office in Washington, D.C.
Those appropriations include $475,000 to Box Elder County to fund ambulances, cardiac monitors and other emergency medical services; $1.5 million to the Bear Lake Special Service District to fund expand waterwater services along the east shore of Bear Lake; $1.5 million to North Logan to support the city’s culinary water well project; 1.3 million to the Laketown community to support the town’s municipal well project; $1 million to the Cache Valley Transit District to upgrade its transit center; $500,000 to the North Park Police Agency for equipment and training; $500,000 to Garden City for road improvements; and $500,000 to Utah State University to fund the acquisition of unmanned drones to support public safety.
Moore is locked in a truly competitive primary race for the first time since being sent to Congress in 2020.
Utah Rep. Karianne Lisonbee (R-Clearfield) emerged as the clear winner in the race for the Utah’s District 2 seat in Congress at the State Nominating Convention on April 27, blowing past the incumbent by a nearly 30-point margin.
Lisonbee earned 62 percent of the delegates’ votes at the GOP gathering at the Utah Community Credit Union Center in Orem, compared to 34 percent for Moore.
The sitting congressman has always had a rocky relationship with feisty convention delegates. In 2024, for example, he lost to a political unknown by a 10-point margin at the GOP convention, only to score a 40-point victory during the subsequent statewide primary election.
Although statewide polling seems to indicate that Moore should win a clear majority of ballots in primary voting set for June 23, Lisonbee has continued to dog the incumbent congressman for his role as a co-chair of the Better Boundaries initiative in 2018.
That effort ultimately resulted a court-ordered congressional redistricting map that turned a reliably GOP seat in Salt Lake County into a left-leaning potential win for Democrats.
Other appropriations for Utah shepherded through Congress by Moore include $4.5 million for the office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner; $6.5 million for Hill Air Force Base; $3 million for Syracuse City; $1.5 million for Hooper City; $2 million for Morgan City; $1.5 million for Layton City; $1 million for the Utah Transit Authority; $925,000 for the Salt Lake City Corporation; $660,000 for the University of Utah; and $500,000 for the Ogden City Corporation.