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Cavalier Johnson: “We used a lot of federal dollars from President Joe Biden's…”

Featuring: Cavalier Johnson, Democratic | Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson

Published | Video Starts at 34:39

So these are some of the things that we've been doing over the years, including here in the Year of Housing, working with Michael Murphy there when he was on the council, along with me. We used a lot of federal dollars from President Joe Biden's administration, American Rescue Plan act dollars. And we invested a significant amount of those dollars into housing to take city owned tax foreclosed properties that we hold that basically have no value to us because they're not generating taxes. (34:39–34:46)

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Claims Milwaukee used federal American Rescue Plan funds for housing initiatives.

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