Questionable COVID-relief spending allegations pile up

The Center Square ^ | 4/12/23 | Casey Harper

[CFW]

Lawmakers are outraged after reports that federal COVID-relief tax dollars may have gone to wealthy hospitals while avoiding helping out poor hospitals in recovering from the pandemic.

Republican members of Congress have raised this very question, asking why $17 billion of COVID-19 relief funds was used by hospitals with profits topping more than $53 billion, “while $35 billion went to hospitals that reported a loss of almost $130 billion.”

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., launched an investigation this week into the Department of Health and Human Services over the matter, the latest of several questions about about how trillions of COVID-19 relief dollars were spent, or misspent.

“The federal spending spree during the COVID-19 pandemic produced historic amounts of waste and fraud, and American families are paying a steep price as a result,” Heritage Foundation Budget expert David Ditch told The Center Square. “The exact amount is impossible to calculate because so much was given in so many directions.”

[CFW]

I've never read anything from this site before and just followed a link from another site I often read.

It has some interesting information regarding allocations of Covid funding for hospitals. Much of it I remember reading about some time ago, but some of the funding info is new to me.

"As The Center Square previously reported, billions of dollars went to “equity warriors” in schools, sparking backlash."

[Yo-Yo]

Throw hundreds of billions of dollars at businesses and state/local governments, and you would be naive to believe that there would NOT be questionable spending allegations.

[momincombatboots]

Couldn’t be… this was Trumps policy. He is for the taxpayers and working class…. And big government bedding big pharma.

[Grampa Dave]

This appears to be an excellent site!

Thanks

[AppyPappy]

Because they can afford to hire the CPA’s

[Honest Nigerian]

This is surprising?
Even without the allegedly inappropriate payments, back in 2020 and 2021 I told people that all the Covidious-stimulus money that was being received (by almost everyone and his/her sheboygan) would eventually be paid back about 9-fold in the form of more taxes.