National Security
We must do everything we can to ensure service members, veterans, and their families are cared for in return for their service to our country. Proper defense budgeting ensures our soldiers are best equipped to get the job done. Maintaining the readiness of our military also ensures our national defense. Supporting South Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst not only supports our national security needs, but it also employs 44,000 civilians and military personnel.
I also have a personal commitment to the unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East and the region’s only democracy. I am proud to serve on the Armed Services Committee to ensure our military, allies, and strategic partners can meet domestic and security threats to our shared democratic values.
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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced today that the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development will receive up to $9,000,000, with $3,000,000 released initially, in funding for the National Health Emergency Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) administered through the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressmen Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Frank Pallone (NJ-06) and Tom Malinowski (NJ-07) led the New Jersey delegation in sending a letter to President Donald Trump requesting additional federal funding to expand coronavirus testing, surveillance and contact tracing in New Jersey.
The lawmakers called for prioritization of hotspots like New Jersey and the utilization of mobile testing to expand testing access. The Members also asked the President to reconsider Governor Murphy's application for an additional federal testing site in South Jersey.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) today voted in favor of an interim emergency coronavirus relief package, which will provide emergency resources to increase testing, support hospitals and health care providers and includes additional assistance for small businesses.
CHERRY HILL, NJ – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced today that South Jersey health care facilities will receive over $2,500,000 in federal funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act – a $2 trillion federal relief package passed by Congress in late March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CHERRY HILL, NJ – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced today that Rutgers University–Camden will receive $188,253 in federal funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled "RAPID: Factors Contributing To Sequence Conservation in the SARS-CoV-2 Genome." This research will investigate the biology of COVID-19 and its interactions with the human host to stem the spread of the disease and mitigate its devastating impacts on the global human population.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ-01) and Chris Smith (R-NJ-04) today led a bipartisan letter cosigned by the entire NJ Congressional Delegation to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Leader Kevin McCarthy, Leader Mitch McConnell and Leader Chuck Schumer as part of their effort to amend the critical COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program to include both labor and business member organizations, allowing them to tap into the loan program and sustain staff during the economic crisis.
CHERRY HILL, NJ – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) released the following statement today on the U.S. Department of Education's release of a plan for distributing $14 billion of the CARES Act funding to colleges and universities:
CHERRY HILL, NJ – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) released the following statement today on the recently-secured $630 million contract secured for the Philly Shipyard:
CHERRY HILL, NJ – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) joined Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and the New Jersey and New York Congressional delegations, including Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), in urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expedite the awarding of funds for hospitals and health care providers as appropriated in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The stimulus package includes $100 billion to ensure hospitals and health care providers have the adequate resources to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.
CHERRY HILL, NJ - U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) joined with leadership from Cooper University Health Care and Virtua Health, as well as officials from the Camden County Freeholder Board and the Camden County Health Department at the opening of a new drive-up COVID-19 testing site in the city of Camden.