The Treasury Department is now investigating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the migrant flights he sent to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The question is whether DeSantis used Covid funds to pay for the flights.
Of course, that’s not what this is really about. It’s about harassing an opponent of the Democrats. This is what Democrats do now. They use the power of the government to intimidate and harass their opponents through investigations. They’ve been doing it to Trump since 2016.
Politico reports:
Treasury Department IG probing DeSantis’ migrant flightsThe Treasury Department is examining Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant transports and whether the Republican governor improperly used money connected to Covid-19 aid to facilitate the flights.The agency’s inspector general’s office confirmed to several members of Massachusetts’s Democratic congressional delegation that it planned “to get this work underway as soon as possible” to probe Florida’s spending as part of ongoing audits into how states have used the billions in sent to them as part of the American Rescue Plan, according to a letter provided by Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey’s office.In an Oct. 7 letter to Markey and five House members, Richard K. Delmar, deputy inspector general for the Treasury Department told the lawmakers that the agency would “review the allowability” of Covid-19 aid to states “related to immigration generally, and will specifically confirm whether interest earned on (the) funds was utilized by Florida related to immigration activities, and if so, what conditions and limitations apply to such use.”
The Biden administration flies migrants all over the U.S. in the dead of night, but naturally, no one asks any questions about that.
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) is a driving force behind this.
The left cheers on the Democrats for using the power of the state against Republicans.
DeSantis was pretty up-front about where the funding came from. The New York Post reported:
Florida’s state legislature passed a bipartisan budget earlier this year to set aside $12 million in interest off COVID aid for a program to help “the transport of unauthorized aliens from this state consistent with federal law.”DeSantis, who is favored to win a second term as Florida governor next month, tapped into that funding for the two migrant flights.Florida State Sen. Jason Pizzo, a Democrat who represents the Miami region, filed a lawsuit against DeSantis last month in a bid to ban him from using state money for any future flights.
Democrats don’t care about the money or misuse of Covid funds, that’s just an excuse for this.
It’s political retribution against DeSantis for doing something that exposed the hypocrisy of Democrats.
Plain and simple.
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