A state audit report accused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds of using nearly $450,000 in federal COVID funds to pay salaries for 21 staff members and concealing the spending by passing it through the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
DES MOINES, Iowa — A state audit report on government spending released Monday accused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds of using nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds to pay salaries for 21 staff members for three months last year and concealing the spending by passing it through the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
Sand said he had asked Reynolds' office twice for documentation to support the spending and was told the governor's staff members during March, April, May and June of 2020 were fully focused on responding to COVID-19 and protecting Iowa but never provided proof of the expenditure on the COVID response.
“That spreadsheet that shows they changed the headers to basically instead of say shortfall to say COVID 19 is a pretty big deal,” he told The Associated Press, suggesting that the attempt by Reynolds' administration to conceal the use of the federal money was to fill a salary gap.Alex Murphy, a spokesman for Reynolds, said in a statement that the U.S. Treasury Department had allowed the use of coronavirus relief money to reimburse salaries for governors.
“CARES funding can be used for salaries. That’s very clear in what allowable allocations are,” she said.
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