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Members press witnesses on broadband, pandemic relief spending and defense transfer authority
Summary
Members quizzed witnesses about broadband funding, pandemic relief examples and DOD transfer authority: witnesses cited SLFRF and broadband program counts and warned DOD accounting weaknesses and statutory fragmentation complicate consolidation.
Panelist Paul Winfrey and others gave concrete examples members said illustrated fragmentation and weak oversight. Winfrey cited State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund spending examples the panel described as low‑value: "a $185,000,000 from the SLFRF went to projects related to improving golf courses," he said, adding that $400,000,000 went to swimming pools and $34,000,000 to tennis and pickleball courts; he…
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