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TexasTowelie

(117,292 posts)
Tue May 10, 2022, 03:06 PM May 2022

Democrats demand US Treasury probe on Texas shifting Covid funds to border security

Castro, Escobar accuse Gov. Abbott of misusing federal funds intended for pandemic relief to pay for Operation Lone Star.


WASHINGTON – Texas Democrats in Congress have asked the U.S. Treasury to investigate whether Gov. Greg Abbott has misused up to $1 billion in pandemic relief funds to pay for the state’s controversial border security effort.

“Governor Abbott must not be allowed to use federal coronavirus relief funds to further his political theater at the expense of Texas families,” they wrote Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, noting that “the funding in question was intended to help Texans rebuild from the pandemic.”

A Treasury official said Tuesday the department has received and is reviewing the letter from Reps. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio and Veronica Escobar of El Paso and seven others.

Abbott’s office has denied misuse of federal Covid-19 funds, a $15.8 billion windfall from Congress last year intended to help states cope with the pandemic.

With few strings attached, Abbott has been able to beef up border spending by tapping health and prison budgets, then backfilling with the federal relief funds.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/05/10/dems-demand-us-treasury-probe-on-texas-shifting-covid-funds-to-border-security/
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Democrats demand US Treasury probe on Texas shifting Covid funds to border security (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2022 OP
gop cons, etc are NEVER held accountable... Eliot Rosewater May 2022 #1
And investigate Alabama shifting its funds to prisons, etc. in the state...I'm sure that there are SWBTATTReg May 2022 #2
They wouldn't need more Covid funding it they didn't let states spend it on everything else MichMan May 2022 #3

SWBTATTReg

(24,270 posts)
2. And investigate Alabama shifting its funds to prisons, etc. in the state...I'm sure that there are
Tue May 10, 2022, 03:36 PM
May 2022

other blatant misuses of these funds in other locations too (red states).

MichMan

(13,426 posts)
3. They wouldn't need more Covid funding it they didn't let states spend it on everything else
Tue May 10, 2022, 06:10 PM
May 2022
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