Lightfoot Shrugs Off Criticism Of Spending Coronavirus Funds On Cops

Chicago IL

19 February, 2021

3:48 PM

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CHICAGO (CBS) — "Criticism comes with the job of mayor, but this one's just dumb," the mayor said Friday morning. The city received approximately $470 million in federal funding from the CARES Act in 2020 to help reimburse the city for costs related to the pandemic. Lightfoot said the city took advantage of that funding to cover $281.5 million in Chicago Police Department payroll costs related to the pandemic. Without using that money, Chicago would have been faced with an even bigger budget deficit than the combined $2 billion shortfall for 2020 and 2021 that Lightfoot's office announced last summer. Read more at CBS Chicago