Iowa’s state auditor again called for Gov. Kim Reynolds to return nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds that were used to pay for 21 governor’s office staff members for three months in 2020
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- Iowa’s state auditor again called for Gov.
- Kim Reynolds to return nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds.
- Reynolds paid salaries for 21 staff members — including her spokesman, a lawyer and her chief of staff — from March 15 to June 30, 2020, out of federal funds.
- The governor’s staff salaries had already been considered in creating her budget prior to the pandemic, making them ineligible for payment out of the federal pandemic relief money, he says.
- A spokesman for Reynolds has said many members of her staff worked seven days a week out of State Emergency Operation Center to provide direct support to Iowans.