Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced on Thursday that the state would be returning over $95 million in COVID-19 relief funding to the federal government.
"I just returned 95-million dollars because they sent an additional 95-million dollars to the state of Iowa to get our kids back in the classroom by doing surveillance testing," Reynolds said in a town hall on Fox News Thursday night. "I said we've been in the classroom since August, here is your 95-million dollars back."
In a letter to the CDC, interim Iowa Department of Public Health Director Kelly Garcia said if the money could be used for something other than testing, the state would keep it. The letter also says Iowa has "ample funding and testing capacity available for its schools".
