There have been no conversations with the governor's office about the return of federal relief funds, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley's office told the Journal Sentinel. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he had started to have some conversations about the potential for federal funding to be taken back but that he did not have any concrete information about how or if the city would be impacted. But details as to what kind of funds would be eligible to be clawed back by federal officials under the deal were not released as of Tuesday.īritt Cudaback, a spokeswoman for Evers, said the administration is "closely monitoring the ongoing conversations at the federal level regarding any potential recissions." As of March, the state had not obligated or spent $447 million in pandemic relief funding, according to the Evers administration. It's unclear exactly how much Wisconsin could be required to return. The agreement between Biden and McCarthy to suspend the nation’s borrowing limit proposes to claw back about $30 billion in unspent federal pandemic relief dollars, some of which will be repurposed. "We're looking at what is known and seeing how much money we would have to send back but at this point in time we're not anywhere near because they aren't anywhere near soup yet." "We haven't heard anything because I don't think the written document exists so we are planning all across our agencies," Evers told reporters in Brown Deer, according to WISN-TV. More: Budget surplus pushes Wisconsin's financial reserves to an all-time high. Tony Evers told reporters on Tuesday his administration is planning for the possibility, which could result in Wisconsin losing some of the $447 million in federal funds state officials have not yet spent out of the billions it was allocated as part of federal laws passed by Congress to help states navigate and recover from the coronavirus pandemic. MADISON – Wisconsin officials are preparing to send back some of the federal pandemic funding that has not yet been spent under a deal between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the country's debt limit as a federal government default looms.
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