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Washington state diverted $340M in federal COVID funds to immigrants, including via $1,000 checks
Fox news ^ | 2/3/24 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 02/03/2024 4:09:42 PM PST by CFW

A new report is highlighting how federal COVID funds were used in Washington state to give $1,000 checks to illegal immigrants who were ineligible to receive federal economic impact payments during the pandemic due to their immigration status.

The report, by the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), points to money administered by the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF), which was created by the American Rescue Plan Act and was intended to help state and local governments with their response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Washington state received $4.4 billion in funding overall from that program.

The report from the group, which calls for a smaller federal government, highlighted how $340 million in funding went to a program that sent $1,000 checks to illegal immigrants in the state. The funds, approved by the Washington state legislature in April 2021, provided "another round of funding for undocumented Washingtonians," according to an impact report on the program said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: aliens; budget; covid; covid1984; covidfunds; illegalaliens; misconduct; moneylaundering; slfrf; taxpayers; theft; washington
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To: BipolarBob

Legal schmeagal. It’s borrowed anyway.


21 posted on 02/03/2024 5:45:20 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: steve86

Just like Portland controls Oregon, liberal Seattle controls Washington.


22 posted on 02/03/2024 5:50:24 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: CFW

Please, please, please come lock up some Democratic state officials over this. Gov Inslee would look oh so stylish in orange prison scrubs.

I can dream, at least.


23 posted on 02/03/2024 5:53:09 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: BipolarBob

But no one will prosecute them.


24 posted on 02/03/2024 6:36:18 PM PST by Revel
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To: BipolarBob

It isn’t legal. America isn’t a free country.

Anarcho-tyranny rules.


25 posted on 02/03/2024 6:36:31 PM PST by EEGator
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To: CFW

Our government doesn’t work for us any more.

Who benefits from illegal immigration? Globalists. Not the American people.


26 posted on 02/03/2024 6:56:32 PM PST by anthropocene_x
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To: CFW; piasa; Liz

I wonder where the recipients of these funds funneled the money after receiving it?—easy target for organized crime, e.g. drug cartels.


27 posted on 02/03/2024 7:52:45 PM PST by Fedora
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To: CFW

I am so sick of this....we pay huge taxes on property and income tax and if I take money out of my retirement account, I pay taxes on that which makes us seem like we have a bunch of money which we don’t.....


28 posted on 02/03/2024 9:49:50 PM PST by cherry
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To: steve86

pubs own nothingn in washington state...when we went all mail in it was over.....FRAUD....even little spokane has been captured.....


29 posted on 02/03/2024 9:51:29 PM PST by cherry
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To: steve86

pubs own nothingn in washington state...when we went all mail in it was over.....FRAUD....even little spokane has been captured.....


30 posted on 02/03/2024 9:51:31 PM PST by cherry
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To: PROCON

Our elderly neighbor got a check for $150(?), signed by Attorney General Bob Ferguson (running for Gov) to offset the “illegal” prices on tuna fish sold in the state.

“I don’t even EAT tuna fish!”

“Yeah - but you vote Democrat.”

(We of course did not get a check from Side-Show Bob.)


31 posted on 02/03/2024 11:02:37 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Reverend Wright

Wow - so I bet there are 350,000 illegals in Washington State. Some “official” reports say about 11 million illegals in the USA in 2021. But I’m sure that is under-reported and could easily be your 17 million or more.


32 posted on 02/03/2024 11:06:30 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: CFW

American Rescue Plan Act and was intended to help state and local governments with their response and recovery from the COVID-19.

I bet every state and local government was completely abuzz with the news of this grab bag of grift and pandering. I bet that’s how Fani Willis figured out to nab that scuzball boyfriend Wade. A big open-secret everybody knew about but real Americans who got none of it.


33 posted on 02/03/2024 11:15:45 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: 21twelve

The 17 million was in 2020.

There has been 5 million + per year since then.


34 posted on 02/03/2024 11:16:38 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: antidemoncrat
It pays to be an illegals in this country...

It pays to be a politician in this country...

And it has GOT to change!

35 posted on 02/04/2024 4:44:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sparticus

LOCK up??

Dream bigger, son.


36 posted on 02/04/2024 4:45:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

“And it has GOT to change!”

It won’t change as long a Congre$$ opposes term limit and exempt themselves from the rule and regulations they pass ,,, and continue to give themselves big rai$e$.


37 posted on 02/04/2024 6:34:27 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: CFW
From 1963...

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

38 posted on 02/04/2024 6:43:24 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: antidemoncrat

I wasn’t inferring that Congress would be the one doing any change.


39 posted on 02/04/2024 5:08:06 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

But they control the purse strings and as long as they continue to pass out taxpayer dollars like they did for Covid-19 and not account for how it is spent the misuse of taxpayer dollars will continue.


40 posted on 02/05/2024 12:10:51 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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