DeSantis crows over $1K payments to first responders - funded by…

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… Biden's American Rescue Plan.

At a speech in Jacksonville in September 2022, DeSantis spoke in front of a lectern labeled "FIRST RESPONDER BONUSES" and personally handed out checks.

However… the bonuses were not paid for through state funding. They were, in fact, paid for through the American Rescue Plan, a federally-funded program that DeSantis has previously criticized.

… The American Rescue Plan…included …$350 billion to state and local governments to "support their response to and recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency."

… At a March 2021 press conference DeSantis, referencing the bill, said "in some respects, it's kind of Washington at its worst."

But you know what? I’ll take credit for it anyway.