Local governments are spending billions of pandemic relief funds, but some report few specifics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : But Republicans and fiscal conservatives have questioned whether the spending is necessary, noting that most states rebounded quickly from an initial tax plunge during the pandemic to post large budget surpluses.
48% : Counting the federal money as replacement funding for government services shouldn't relieve local officials of describing what they did with it -- even if it just went toward salaries or office supplies, said Sean Moulton, senior policy analyst at the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight.

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