Tag: COVID-19 aid funds

Blue States Are Still Bloating Their Budgets With Federal COVID Dollars

July 19, 2022
COVID-19 aid fundsfederal budgetOpinionU.S. economyViewpoints
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Commentary The federal government has doled out well more than $1 trillion in COVID-19 aid to the states over the last two and a half years. It was money that most red states didn’t need because they kept their economies open. But blue states shut down and begged Congress to give them money to balance…

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Treasury Department Grants More Flexibility State-Local Aid Funding Rules

January 7, 2022
Business & EconomyCOVID-19 aid fundseconomic policieseconomyU.S. TreasuryUS
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WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department said on Thursday it granted more flexibility to state, local and tribal governments in spending $350 billion in COVID-19 aid funds, issuing new final rules on the program launched last year. The Treasury said that the new rules expand the uses on which recipient governments can spend their allotted funds, including child…

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