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.
All told, the city of Madison received more than $42 million in State and Local Fiscal Relief Fund money as part of its ARPA share.
As Fox News reported in February, several Democrat-led states handed out more than a half billion dollars of federally funded Covid relief to illegal immigrants.
U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, said in August that the $350 billion State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program, "Like many other Covid relief programs - possessed very few common-sense restrictions that could have protected the American taxpayer." The Ohio Republican noted reports of the funds being used to replace golf course irrigation systems, boost prize winnings for horse racing competitors, and to create a "Racial equity" commission in Providence, Rhode Island.
Politicians in leftist-led cities and states that are begging for federal funds to clean up President Joe Biden's border mess are boasting about the Covid relief money they used to subsidize illegal immigration.
"The COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund was highly publicized and repeatedly funded by the Legislature," Mike Faulk, a spokesman for liberal Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, told Fox News.
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