{"id":1217486,"date":"2022-01-14T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T03:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217486"},"modified":"2022-01-14T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T03:19:15","slug":"biden-administration-threatens-to-recoup-arizonas-coronavirus-relief-funds-over-mask-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-threatens-to-recoup-arizonas-coronavirus-relief-funds-over-mask-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Threatens to Recoup Arizona&#039;s Coronavirus Relief Funds over Mask Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-threatens-to-recoup-arizonas-coronavirus-relief-funds-over-mask-rules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/child-holds-mask-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden\u2019s (D) administration has threatened to recoup coronavirus relief money issued to Arizona regarding state provisions it claimed discouraged families and school districts from adhering to federal guidance that recommends masks in schools.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press (AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/treasury-arizona-risks-relief-funds-over-anti-mandate-rules\/\">reported<\/a> Friday:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At issue are two state programs that are meant to help schools and students but that direct funding away from jurisdictions with mask requirements. Arizona\u2019s Education Plus-Up Grant Program provides $163 million in funding to schools, but districts that require face coverings are ineligible. And its COVID-19 Educational Recovery Benefit Program provides for up to $7,000 for parents if their child\u2019s school requires face coverings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a letter sent Friday, the Treasury Department said the state had 60 days to remove the provisions regarding masks before the federal government took action to recover the funds, and also threatened to withhold the upcoming aid.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBy discouraging families and school districts from following this guidance, the conditions referenced above undermine efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19,\u201d the department said. \u201cAccordingly, these school programs as currently structured are ineligible uses of (Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds).\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>In a social media post Friday, Gov. Doug Ducey (R) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dougducey\/posts\/468990984576028\">wrote<\/a> the letter was \u201cthe latest example of a President that is completely out of touch with the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will respond to this letter, and we will continue to focus on things that matter to Arizonans. President Biden should do the same, and he can start by addressing the crisis at the border,\u201d he added:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dougducey\/posts\/468990984576028\" data-width=\"640\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100043953917865\/posts\/468990984576028\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>This letter is the latest example of a President that is completely out of touch with the American people. First, a\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dougducey\">Governor Doug Ducey<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100043953917865\/posts\/468990984576028\/\">Friday, January 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>During a recent broadcast of Fox News Channel\u2019s <em>Faulkner Focus<\/em>, Ducey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/01\/06\/az-gov-ducey-well-give-parents-money-to-switch-schools-if-a-school-closes-were-not-letting-union-thugs-play-chicago-like-games\/\">said<\/a> Arizona was going to offer families money to send their children to a different school if theirs shut down&nbsp;because \u201cwe\u2019re not going to let the union thugs play Chicago-like games in Arizona.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arizona has received approximately half of the $4.2 billion given to the state under last year\u2019s coronavirus relief bill, the AP report concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s (D) administration has threatened to recoup coronavirus relief money issued to Arizona regarding state provisions it claimed discouraged families and school districts from adhering to federal guidance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}