Rep. Mark Amodei is closing out his time in Congress with a hefty parting present for Northern Nevada. On June 5, 2026, he announced that every one of his 20 community project funding requests for Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District had cleared the appropriations process, steering more than 29 million dollars to local governments, schools and public-safety agencies across the region. His office billed the haul as the capstone of his final appropriations season before retirement.
In a news release from Amodei's office, the congressman thanked subcommittee chairs and staff and said the projects “met all qualifications” after a detailed review. The release lays out all 20 approved submissions and their combined total, which his office framed around public safety, infrastructure resilience and cleaner drinking water for communities across the district.
Major projects funded
At the top of the list is a Reno-Tahoe Airport terminal modernization effort, which Amodei’s release highlights with a 20 million dollar figure tied to the project. Separate congressional documents show additional, more granular funding lines connected to the airport as the appropriations process sliced that work into specific pieces.
Congressional records list a 2,000,000 dollar terminal improvements line in a House report, according to Congress.gov, and a 2,344,000 dollar snow-removal equipment modernization entry in a Transportation-HUD community project funding table from House Appropriations. Together, those records outline how the airport money is broken out across different accounts.
Transit and public-safety spending also get a slice of the pie. The package includes a hydrogen fuel-cell bus and fueling-site project for the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County and a 3,000,000 dollar Northern Nevada Mobile Intelligence Response Vehicle for Washoe County, as reflected in committee disclosures from House Appropriations.
Smaller awards are scattered across the district map. Fallon, Fernley, Carlin, Lyon County and Gardnerville appear in the disclosures with grants aimed at water and sewer system upgrades, road and pedestrian improvements, school repairs and emergency-dispatch modernization. Most of those awards land in the roughly 500,000 to 1,500,000 dollar range, as shown in the detailed appropriations tables and the member submissions compiled by Amodei’s office.
Why it matters
The package amounts to a district-wide infusion of federal dollars that local officials will now have to budget, match when required and actually build into projects. Amodei had already announced earlier this year that he is retiring from Congress, and his office cast the 20-for-20 run as a final push to lock in money for NV-02 before he heads for the exits. Local coverage noted his February announcement and the political scramble it triggered, including what one outlet dubbed a 2026 free-for-all.
For now, the focus shifts to the recipients: counties, cities, school districts and the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority. They will have to work with federal agencies and state partners to formally obligate and spend the money. Some line items cover equipment purchases that can move relatively fast, while big-ticket capital efforts such as terminal work or hydrogen infrastructure are likely to stretch out over multiple years of planning, permitting and procurement.
