Senate GOP fails to roll back Treasury’s ‘abuse’ of COVID-19 relief funds

Senate Republicans failed to overturn new regulations from the Biden administration that give states greater flexibility in using COVID-19 relief funds.

Last fall, the Treasury Department issued new rules allowing states to “obligate” legal and administrative expenses associated with the funds past an end-of-year deadline. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) sponsored a disapproval resolution to reverse that rule change, arguing the Biden administration was violating the expiration dates laid out in the American Rescue Plan.