"Proud to Deliver": $800K for Two Hospital Radiology Labs That Congress Has Not Yet Funded

Healthcare / Transparency Source: Multiple Facebook Posts MISLEADING

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Why this matters in NY-23

Rural hospitals are among the most important institutions in NY-23, and federal dollars for them are real news. Over the past week Langworthy has posted repeatedly that he “delivered” and “secured” money for two of them: $300,000 for UPMC Chautauqua’s radiology training lab and $500,000 for Arnot Health’s interventional radiology suite. Both projects are worth supporting. But both are Community Project Funding requests for fiscal year 2027 that Congress has not passed — the money is in a draft bill, not in law. This entry documents the gap between “proud to deliver” and “requested.”

Statement

Source: Facebook posts, June 18-23, 2026

UPMC Chautauqua (multiple posts):

“I was proud to deliver $300,000 for a new digital X-ray lab.”

“Proud to be working to strengthen rural healthcare, including securing $300,000 for the School of Radiology training lab.”

Arnot Health (June 19):

“Proud to secure $500,000 for Arnot Health, A Member of Centralus Health to modernize its Interventional Radiology suite.”

What the Money Actually Is

Both figures are FY2027 Community Project Funding (CPF) requests that appear on Langworthy’s own appropriations-disclosure page. CPF is a legitimate earmark process: a House member requests specific funding for a specific local project. Submitting these requests is real constituent service.

But a request is not an appropriation. As of June 24, 2026, no FY2027 funding bill has passed the House, passed the Senate, or been signed into law. Langworthy said as much himself at UPMC Chautauqua, in language his Facebook posts leave out:

“We have secured $300,000 in the base text of that bill that will receive congressional action soon.” — Rep. Langworthy, The Post-Journal, June 18, 2026

“Base text of that bill” means the draft of an appropriations bill — a starting point that still must clear subcommittee, full committee, the House floor, the Senate, and the President’s desk. The Facebook posts compress that pending status into the past tense: “delivered,” “secured.”

Project (FY2027 CPF request)Proposed recipientAmount Langworthy claimsStatus
X-Ray / School of Radiology Training LabUPMC Chautauqua (Jamestown)$300,000In draft bill text; not enacted
Interventional Radiology Room ReplacementChemung County, Elmira (beneficiary: Arnot Ogden Medical Center)$500,000Requested for FY2027; not enacted

Langworthy’s official FY2027 disclosure lists both projects — requestor “Nicholas A. Langworthy,” nexus letters dated March 27, 2026 — but attaches no dollar figure to either, because an amount is not set until a bill is enacted. The $300,000 and $500,000 are Langworthy’s own stated figures, not numbers drawn from the disclosure.

In plain language: These are requests Langworthy has put in for next year’s budget. They are good requests. They are not money that has been delivered.

The Larger Backdrop

The radiology posts arrive against a much larger number moving the other way. Langworthy voted Yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, July 3, 2025), which KFF scores as cutting roughly $137 billion from rural Medicaid over ten years — the funding stream rural hospitals like UPMC Chautauqua and Arnot depend on for day-to-day operations. The state’s Rural Health Transformation Program award offsets only a fraction of that (see the related entries below).

The contrast is not that the radiology grants are fake. It is one of scale and certainty: a $300,000 equipment request he can announce now, set against a structural cut to the same hospitals’ core revenue that he has not mentioned.

What Langworthy Gets Right

This should be said plainly: requesting CPF earmarks for local hospitals is genuine work. It requires identifying a need, coordinating with the hospital and county, and submitting a justified request to the Appropriations Committee. UPMC Chautauqua is the only maternity center in Chautauqua County (about 700 births a year), and after Warren General in Pennsylvania closed its own maternity unit, the case for investing in it is real.

The issue is the tense. “Requested $300,000 in next year’s budget” is accurate. “Proud to deliver $300,000” is not — not yet.

Assessment

Verdict: MISLEADING

The projects are real and the requests are legitimate. But the Facebook posts describe FY2027 funding requests as money already “delivered” and “secured,” dropping the qualifier Langworthy used on camera (“in the base text of that bill”). No FY2027 appropriations bill has passed. This is the same pattern documented in the FY2026 appropriations entry — announcing earmarks in the past tense before they are law — applied here to two rural-hospital radiology projects.

Questions This Raises

  1. Why do the Facebook posts say “delivered” and “secured” when Langworthy told the Post-Journal the money is in the “base text” of a bill awaiting action?
  2. If the FY2027 bill changes in committee or on the floor, what happens to the $300,000 and $500,000?
  3. Why tout targeted radiology equipment while not mentioning the rural-Medicaid cuts in the bill he already voted for?

Sources

Note: This entry documents publicly available information from official disclosures, local news, and the congressional record. Readers may draw their own conclusions.

Last updated: June 24, 2026