Chicago Mayor Defends Spending $281 Million in COVID-19 Federal Funding on Police

Chicago Mayor Defends Spending $281 Million in COVID-19 Federal Funding on Police
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks to reporters outside a school, in Chicago on Feb. 11, 2021. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Updated:

The mayor of Chicago on Feb. 19 said criticism over the city’s spending of nearly $300 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds on the Chicago Police Department was “dumb.”

“Criticism comes with the job of mayor, but this one’s just dumb,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, told reporters in a briefing.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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