States spend federal COVID aid on roads, buildings, seawalls
LA TimesThe Robert B. Docking State Office building in Topeka, Kan., is largely vacant and in need of renovations. State officials categorized the project as a “public health service” in a report to the U.S. Treasury Department laying out their plans for the money. By contrast, the states reported less than $12 billion of planned expenditures the fell in the Treasury Department‘s public health category, even though it was broadly construed to also include such things as “community violence interventions,” substance use services and COVID-19 aid to small businesses. Some states reported no public health expenditures with their discretionary American Rescue Plan funds, including Florida, which received the fourth-largest allotment from the federal government. Though the state agues it’s OK under the Treasury Department‘s flexible rules, the lawsuit contends it’s a “a gross and illegal misuse” of pandemic relief funds.
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