Senator: Americans Would Be ‘Shocked’ If They Saw Where COVID-19 Relief Funds Went

A Republican senator said that only about 10 percent of a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package actually went to dealing with the pandemic, asserting that American taxpayers would be alarmed by where the funds are going.

“Our office dug into it and found a lot of it interesting that much of it is just coming to the surface. … There is so much money sloshing around in that $2 trillion bill, only 10 percent of it went to COVID,” Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) told Fox News on Tuesday. “We’re going to see more and more of this over time. It’s part of the inflation bomb.”

About $15 million in COVID-19 recovery funds were spent on “anti-racism” initiatives and similar education programs, Braun remarked. He was referring to last year’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that was signed into law by President Joe Biden.

In October of last year, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal government agency, announced that $15.2 million in American Rescue Plan project grants would be handed down to “institutions across 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to support the role of museums and libraries in recovering from the coronavirus pandemic.”

According to disclosures posted on the IMLS website, for example, the agency awarded grants to various organizations to promote the “anti-racism” agenda. In one instance, it gave the Rochester Museum and Science Center in New York about $50,000 for a field trip for students to see an exhibit that features the “story of a community-led effort to remove racist artwork from a historic carousel, as a tool for anti-racism education.”

Criticalrace.org, a website dedicated to exposing critical race theory being taught in schools and colleges, says that the anti-racism agenda is closely aligned with CRT—itself an offshoot of the earlier Marxist Frankfurt

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