Ari Fleischer: Day of reckoning coming if we don’t get COVID funds under control

Ari Fleischer discusses the repercussions of California borrowing federal money to pay unemployment claims

By Joshua Nelson | Fox News

Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer joined “Outnumbered” Tuesday to discuss California Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s decision to borrow money from the federal government to make unemployment payments to those left without work due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“Every time a town, a city, or a county says ‘We don’t have money, we need the state to help us,’ [or] every time a state says, ‘We don’t have money, we need the federal government to help us,’ and all of the above, it is coming from the same place, it’s coming from American taxpayers,”Fleischer said. “We’re all one,”

California borrowed $348 million after receiving approval to use up to $10 billion in federal funds until the end of July, a Treasury Department spokesman told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

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