Washington, D.C. – Last month, the NRSC launched a digital ad highlighting the Democrats’ unanimous vote to give taxpayer-funded stimulus checks to criminals like the Boston Marathon bomber and Larry Nassar, the perverted doctor who molested young gymnasts.
Now, thanks to a FOIA document from the IRS, we know the shocking scope of these payments. Thanks to Senate Democrats, nearly $1 BILLION was paid to roughly 645,000 criminals!
Statement from NRSC Chairman Rick Scott: “I am sickened to hear from the IRS that nearly $1 billion of taxpayer money was sent to a staggering 645,000 inmates. These criminals, who hail from all 50 states and impacted nearly every community, didn’t deserve a dime of stimulus money. Senate Democrats could have prevented this disaster from occurring but decided not to. It ought to infuriate every voter in America.”
By: Jerry Dunleavy and Andrew Kerr
Washington Examiner
The federal government doled out nearly a billion dollars in stimulus payments to prison inmates in 2021 under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, according to IRS records obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The third-round stimulus payments to prisoners totaled $924.3 million, which was much greater than previously reported. The checks went out despite efforts by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana to bar stimulus funds from going to prisoners. Senate Democrats voted unanimously against the amendment in a 50-49 party-line vote in March 2021.
…
The IRS reported that the money went to approximately 645,000 people who were incarcerated at the start of the year, according to FOIA records provided to the Washington Examiner by the NRSC.
The figure is much higher than the $783.5 million figure previously reported by Fox News in July.
READ MORE IN THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
###