{"id":47608,"date":"2022-10-13T09:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=47608"},"modified":"2022-10-13T09:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:39:39","slug":"the-lefts-destruction-machine-goes-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=47608","title":{"rendered":"The Left&#8217;s Destruction Machine Goes Into Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/treasury-department-inspector-general-audit-desantis-migrant-flight-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> posted the following headline:<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Treasury Department inspector general to audit DeSantis migrant flight spending<\/h1>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Treasury Department inspector general confirmed in a letter to Democratic lawmakers that the agency is planning to audit whether spending by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> on migrant flights was improper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The lawmakers asked the Treasury Department to look into whether Florida improperly used American Rescue Plan funds for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">migrant flights to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard<\/a> in Massachusetts, which drew widespread media attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida lawmakers authorized<\/a> a $12 million migrant program funded with interest earnings from the federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022\/5001\/BillText\/er\/HTML\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to documents.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., celebrated the announcement Wednesday, taking credit for spurring the Treasury Department into action.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;@USTreasury responded to my letter, confirming that it will investigate [Gov. DeSantis&#8217;] use of Covid relief funds to cruelly transport immigrants from Texas to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard under false pretenses and without any consideration for their personal dignity or basic needs,&#8221; Markey boasted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Fox News Digital has reached out to DeSantis&#8217; office for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who is paying for the federal government to move illegal immigrants around the country in the dead of night (article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=47477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>)? Note that the investigation is being done at the request of a liberal Democrat. I am sure that is simply an incredible coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>This is another example of the use of a federal agency to intimidate anyone who challenges the misdeeds of the Biden administration. I suspect there are many more relevant things that the Inspector General should be looking at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Fox News posted the following headline: Treasury Department inspector general to audit DeSantis migrant flight spending The article reports: The Treasury Department inspector general confirmed in a letter to Democratic lawmakers that the agency is planning to audit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=47608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13244,2523,102,1619,15863,6644],"class_list":["post-47608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-florida-governor-ron-desantis","tag-fox-news","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-inspector-general","tag-migrant-flights","tag-treasury-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47611,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47608\/revisions\/47611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}