‘Trick on Taxpayers’ Outlines Questionable Projects Funded by COVID-19 Relief

‘Trick on Taxpayers’ Outlines Questionable Projects Funded by COVID-19 Relief
The Field of Dreams prior to the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs in Dyersville, Iowa, on Aug. 11, 2022. Michael Reaves/Getty Images
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More and more federally funded, controversial projects that came as part of pandemic-relief spending passed by Congress are coming to light, and few of them do not have anything to do with COVID-19.

Citizens Against Government Waste released its annual breakdown of the last year’s “nightmarish” federal spending in honor of Halloween. The report highlights several taxpayer-funded projects, many of them coming from the trillions in “COVID relief” passed through three congressional spending bills.
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