Blue States Are Still Bloating Their Budgets With Federal COVID Dollars

Blue States Are Still Bloating Their Budgets With Federal COVID Dollars
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a bill signing ceremony in San Francisco, Calif. on Feb. 9, 2022. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Stephen Moore
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The federal government has doled out well more than $1 trillion in COVID-19 aid to the states over the last two and a half years. It was money that most red states didn’t need because they kept their economies open. But blue states shut down and begged Congress to give them money to balance their budgets.

Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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