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Key GOP senator suggests taking unused federal unemployment money and spending it on infrastructure

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Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia suggested redirecting federal funds from President Joe Biden’s stimulus law to finance an infrastructure package.

“I think there’s all kinds of different ways that we’re looking at. Certainly repurposing some of those covid dollars,” she told Bloomberg. “I’ve been looking at those 21 states that are no longer paying the enhanced unemployment — why don’t we repurpose those dollars to help those folks coming off unemployment get work in an infrastructure plan.”

She went on: “It sounds like a good win-win situation for those dollars.”  

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