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U.S. Treasury Probes Whether Florida Gov. DeSantis Misused COVID Funds on Migrant Flights

HeadlineOct 13, 2022

The Biden administration is investigating whether Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis misused COVID aid money to pay for flights that brought 48 Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Massachusetts as part of a political stunt. The Treasury Department’s inspector general said it’s part of a larger probe into how states used — or misused — billions of dollars of public health funds disbursed under the American Rescue Plan.

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