Senator Braun says Americans should be ‘outraged’ after states pocketed COVID-19 relief cash

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., stated Individuals throughout the nation needs to be “outraged” after states pocketed COVID-19 reduction funds to make use of for pet tasks.

Tons of of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer {dollars} from President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan have been spent by states on frivolous tasks.

Braun is looking for the earmarked funds to be repaid and lambasted the Democrats over their dealing with of taxpayer {dollars} contained within the COVID-19 reduction invoice.

STATES POCKETED MILLIONS IN COVID-RELIEF CASH FOR PET PROJECTS

“Final yr, I predicted that the American individuals could be ‘outraged’ after they discovered what was in Democrats’ so-called ‘COVID reduction’ invoice: a bunch of payoffs, waste and a recipe for runaway inflation,” Braun advised Fox Information Digital in an unique assertion.

“Nancy Pelosi doesn’t care that you simply’re getting gouged so long as she will get her luxurious accommodations and ski slopes paid for in your dime,” Braun added. “I’m nonetheless outraged, and now that Individuals see what was in that invoice, they need to be too.”

President Biden’s signature laws — the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan — allotted $350 billion to help struggling localities and states get by means of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nonetheless, states used the a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in COVID reduction cash for pet tasks, together with luxurious accommodations, spas, baseball stadium renovations and others.

Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., walks with reporters searching for updates a few vote on President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion home coverage package deal, in addition to a companion $1 trillion infrastructure invoice, on the Capitol in Washington Nov. 4, 2021.
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Broward County, Florida, dropped $140 million in American tax {dollars} on a brand new, 29-story luxurious resort overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with 800 rooms and an 11,000-foot spa.

Dutchess County, New York, paid $12 million in federal funds to renovate a New York Yankees-affiliated minor league workforce’s stadium.

In Massachusetts, $5 million in taxpayer cash paid off money owed of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate.

Senator Mike Braun, a Republican from Indiana, walks to a Senate Republican caucus assembly on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Oct. 7, 2021. 
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Different pet tasks undertaken by states utilizing taxpayer {dollars} embody $400 million to create new prisons in Alabama; $2 million to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, to purchase a privately-owned ski space; $6.6 million to exchange two Colorado Springs golf programs’ irrigation programs and a mixed $80 million for tourism advertising campaigns for Puerto Rico; Tuscon, Arizona; and Washington, D.C.