Posted on 02/04/2024 4:00:42 PM PST by bitt
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.
The Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund was first set up in 2020 to grant checks to those ineligible for government assistance programs due to their immigration status.
Treasury documents confirm that the state has since provided an extra $340 million in federal relief funds for the one-time cash grants, with 10% of the funding went to community-based organizations to administer the program.
“The $340 million project is categorized as a ‘cash transfer’ expenditure under the SLFRF, approved for the State of Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
SEE the docs here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/report-biden-regime-gave-millions-covid-relief-funds/
ILLEGALS, NOT “migrants”
The word has gone out to change the language again. Damn them all to hell.
COVID funda are a big slush fund for democrat thugs and goons.
…so if some company received a fed grant or loan and used it for a completely different purpose than authorized or intended, someone would go to jail ….
We knew some ah****’s would steal our money to get votes.
And where has millions been ‘misplaced’ or lost’?
The government ran out of money to give away so now they print/inflate to steal from us by raising the cost of everything.
This is communism and it sucks.
Foreign invaders.....
TAXPAYERS- No soup for you!
Nothing these A holes do surprises me.
Isn’t this misappropriation of government funds? Shouldn’t some people go to jail? It used to be a big no no.
WS has been a WOKE ahole state for a long time
No.
INVADERS.
Washington State ranks Number 39 for cost of living. Hawaii is Number 50.
covid funds for the most part were a redistribution plan for many. Those we will prosecute and those we will look the other way
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