From Fox News: Former Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., who just launched a comeback bid for her old seat, claimed she brought “billions of dollars” home to Missouri’s 1st Congressional District while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, but public records reviewed by Fox News Digital tell a different story.
During her failed re-election campaign last year, Bush’s fundraising claims for St. Louis skyrocketed from $41 million to $2 billion in less than a month.
“I’m proud to have delivered home over $2 BILLION and counting,” Bush claimed on April 19, 2024.
But less than a month prior, on March 28, 2024, Bush’s campaign submitted language for an ad, which ran for a month beginning on April 3, 2024, touting just $41 million in “community project funding since 2021.” Her campaign has not responded to Fox News Digital’s request to explain the 4,778% increase.
In her new campaign video released last Friday, Bush touted her previous work in Congress. “I promised to fight for St. Louis and we delivered,” she says, adding, “We brought billions of dollars home, directly to our community.”
However, Fox News reports that, based on public federal contract and grant records, only about $49 million went to the St. Louis district while Bush was in Congress, and most of that was funding that she had voted AGAINST.
The grants issued to the St. Louis district between 2021 and 2024 mostly included funds from the Department of Defense and the Justice Department – both which clashed with Bush’s progressive agenda. Fox News found the following:
- $48,812,351 in Department of Defense funding for research at Washington University, Saint Louis University and Vandeventer Place Research Foundation, which are all located in St. Louis
- $6,020,147 from the Department of Justice to increase police department headcounts, provide overtime pay or purchase new equipment
- $1,286,634,821.76 in Defense Department contracts, primarily for missiles, military aircraft and drone purchases with The Boeing Company
Bush has repeatedly called to “defund the police,” and in 2020, she called to “defund the Pentagon.” She has also called to abolish prisons and abolish ICE.
Fox News explains: Bush was also one of six Democrats who voted against former President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which passed through Congress in 2021 as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
Bush lost her re-election campaign when she was defeated in the Democrat primary in August 2024 by St. Louis County prosecutor Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo., a more moderate candidate who was supported by pro-Israel groups.
Defund the Pentagon.https://t.co/ODtYWRRPGk
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) September 22, 2020
St. Louis Metro Police Department has a $208 million budget & is now taking bids for “Civil Disobedience Buses” to crack down on protests.
Defund. The. Police.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) October 11, 2020
Medicare, Housing, & College for All. A Green New Deal. UBI. Cancel student & medical debt. End endless wars. Legalize cannabis. Abolish private prisons, cash bail, & ICE. Defund the police. Overturn Citizens United. Reproductive justice. Reparations.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) September 17, 2020
We’re going to defund the police and refund our social services.
Don’t like this idea? Well, we don’t like dead Black & Brown bodies & broken families at the hands of those sworn to protect us.
The police have failed at fixing themselves—so we’re going to do it.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) October 19, 2020
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