Posted on 04/06/2024 7:03:38 PM PDT by bitt
Madison is among several blue cities and states that used taxpayer-funded Covid aid for programs for illegal immigrants.
A Wisconsin lawmaker is demanding answers from the city of Madison in the wake of a report showing the leftist enclave doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal Covid relief funds to illegal immigrants.
“The decision to use pandemic relief money to assist illegal immigrants at the expense of Wisconsinites reveals the out of touch priorities of Madison politicians,” Republican state Sen. Duey Stroebel said Thursday in a statement. His office has filed an open records request “to investigate the city’s questionable use” of the federal funds.
It appears city officials decided to do an end-around with their portion of the nearly $2 trillion in so-called “stimulus” funds that were handed out — and simultaneously dumped onto the untenable U.S. debt — by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) in response to the Covid pandemic.
The Institute for Reforming Government’s Center for Investigative Oversight found the city approved $700,000 from its share of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to assist illegal immigrants. Records obtained by IRG show the money was handed out to area nonprofits that ultimately provided services to illegal aliens in Madison, “despite those immigrants being largely ineligible to otherwise receive direct federal or state aid.”
‘Funneling Taxpayer Dollars’ The records include a document noting the expenditures, and the fact that illegal immigrants are not eligible for federal or state “direct assistance” under the law. As of the filing, $608,000.24 of the funds had been expended for “economic impact assistance.”
“The project addresses the need to support programming, services and outreach for persons in the community who are undocumented. The pandemic has had a profound impact on undocumented residents particularly around
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I expect absolutely nothing to come of this, other than some outrage from conservatives.
Lawlessness prevails and stories like this seemingly everyday proves it
Probably with blessings from the Biden Administration.
The outrage is not the gift to illegals. The outrage is it’s 2024 and we are still passing out billions in covid goodies.
Republicans are too stupid to use this wild spending on the illegals as a cudgel against the Biden Democrats.
‘The People’s Republic of Madistan’ is a BLIGHT on the Good People of Wisconsin, and America as a whole. And I’ll guaran-damn-tee you that this free-for-all of CovidBS-19 Cash has been squandered by every Socialist Democrat that had access to it via Mother Government.
I can’t hardly WAIT to see what the Socialist Democrats cook up for November, 2024! *SPIT*
Seriously? It’s PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that ‘government’ at any and ALL levels doesn’t give a rip about the future of our Nation. Do YOU have TAXPAYER DOLLARS to p*ss away like Mother Government does? H#ll no!
We The People are on our own. Utterly and completely and well into the foreseeable future. Plan accordingly for you and yours.
Used to be, you would go to prison for misappropriation of taxpayer money.?
Madistan. I really want that place smoldering in ashes.
Fani is prosecuting (persecuting) President Trump with COVID funds. Wade used them for her vacations.
Congress shouldn’t have considered giving any money to state or local governments. That spending isn’t in the Constitution.
Agreed. Just more government fraud, waste and abuse, IMHO.
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