According to the Baker administration, Heath Fahle, special director of federal funds in the Executive Office of Administration and Finance, is overseeing this latest flow of federal aid.įahle joined the administration last May after working as director of policy and research at the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Deval Patrick hired Jeffrey Simon to oversee the influx of federal aid under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Facebook Twitter Energy & Environment Brown recovery wipes out hopes that pandemic stimulus would drive climate spending. Among other things, the state has used CARES Act funds to pay for emergency expenses associated with COVID-19, support for hospitals, and aid to food banks and vulnerable populations. News, Analysis and Opinion from POLITICO. The more than $2 trillion federal CARES Act approved in March delivered $2.46 billion in state and local government aid to Massachusetts. Will you get a check? Here is everything you need to know. The new federal law did not include an item delivering additional aid to state and local governments, a topic that President-elect Joe Biden intends to address sometime early this year when a new-look Congress featuring Democrats with slight majority margins in both branches sets to work on another federal aid bill.Ĭongress just passed a nearly $1 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. $37.2 million through a substance abuse prevention and treatment block grant $46.5 million for the Governor’s Emergency Education Fund $88.9 million for vaccine distribution
$452.1 million for testing, tracing and COVID-19 mitigation efforts $471.8 million through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund $814.9 million through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund The second round of coronavirus stimulus payments is being distributed, but if you haven't received it, there's some information to know.Īccording to Baker administration estimates, the following federal totals are newly flowing to Massachusetts:
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