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Eric Wimberger: “We still have about $500 million or so left in coronavirus…”

Featuring: Eric Wimberger, Republican | Wisconsin State Senate, District 2

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Republican state senator pushes Wisconsin governor to hand over $170M in interest on unspent funds

Published | Video Starts at 00:24

He would kind of designate money, but when other federal or state money came in, he would cost swap it out and put it back into the kiddie. So We still have about $500 million or so left in coronavirus money. That's unspent. And that's why it was never spent is because it was cost swapped out during that time period. Interest was accumulating on that corpus. (00:24–00:31)

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Asserts that approximately $500 million in coronavirus funds remain unspent.

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