
The Office of the Governor told The Capitolist that it remained in contact with the Treasury to ensure that all spending was done so according to legal permissions.The Treasury will also monitor legislative and judicial challenges to the use of the funds for the way in which Florida is accused of using them.The state did not directly use federal COVID-19 funds, but state legislators earlier this year directed $12 million in interest earned off COVID-19 aid to be used to pay for the transport of unauthorized migrants, according to POLITICO Florida.Ed Markey and six other members of Congress that it is auditing the state of Florida’s use of federal dollars to transport migrants from Texas to Massachusetts
