States Adrift

For John, BLUF:  This is robbing Peter to pay Paul.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Attorneys General Sue Over Access to $1 Billion in Federal School Aid

Here is the sub-headline:

The Trump administration abruptly cut states’ access to Covid pandemic funding for school programs, saying they’d had enough time to spend it.

From The Old Gray Lady, by Reporters Hurubie Meko and Troy Closson, 10 April 2025, 8:37 p.m. ET.

Here is the lede plus one:

Sixteen attorneys general and a Democratic governor sued the Trump administration on Thursday to restore access to over $1 billion in federal pandemic relief aid for schools that was recently halted, saying that the pullback could cause acute harm to students.

The suit, led by New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and filed in Manhattan federal court, is one of the latest efforts by states to fight President Trump’s clawback of funding allocated to programs he does not want the government to support. The funding was part of a windfall of more than $190 billion that the U.S. Department of Education distributed to schools at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Per Wikipedia, on this day in 2023, "The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency."

Two years ago.  And various States have not yet spent all the money they were given to help cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic?  Why have those States, such as New York, been so negligent in meeting the needs of their children.

And, per the Debt Clock, as of 1429 Eastern Time today our Nation Debt was $36,811,822,327,728.  That is $36.8 Trillion Dollars.  And it is going up about $29 Billion a week.

I can understand New York Attorney General Letitia James not graspinng the seriousness of the situation.  But the others?  Surely they can't all be that near sighted!

At some point that great American financial streucture will collapse and we will all, except maybe for the bureaucrats, be reduced to poverty.  That would not be good.  The Academics would all point to the Greek Financial Crisis of 2008.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff