American Rescue Plan Sold as ‘Emergency’ Measure is Spent on Non-Covid Items, Much Remains Unspent

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was a $1.9 trillion bill that Democrats rammed through Congress on a party-line vote in early 2021

• It was sold as an emergency measure to help the United States address the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact.
• However, just 12% of the over $100 billion earmarked for elementary and secondary schools has been spent so far, and only about $70 billion of the $350 billion allocated for state and local governments had been spent.

ARPA seems rife for public corruption, misappropriation of funds, and the squandering of public resources.

• Even if the funds aren't used 'illegally,' they are being used politically - a practice common in third-world countries known as "official corruption."

Some of the funding allocations are questionable

• Minneapolis allocated $300,000 to "Promote healing and positive activation in the Black community to build and implement a larger vision of an equitable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 and racial trauma."
• New York City Public Schools has earmarked $12,308,279 of its ARPA funds to expand their Woke "restorative justice" agenda "to all middle and high schools citywide."

https://beckernews.com/american-rescue-plan-sold-as-emergency-measure-is-spent-on-non-covid-items-much-remains-unspent-46775/