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TexasTowelie

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Thu Mar 25, 2021, 10:51 PM Mar 2021

Republicans want to offer $250K to prosecutors who investigate Whitmer nursing home policies [View all]

Republicans in the Michigan Senate want to offer $1.25 million in grants for county prosecutors who pledge to investigate Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state health department regarding nursing home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was not made immediately clear why local prosecutors would need additional funding to launch an investigation, or whether lawmakers knew of local officials who wanted to investigate the correlation of state policy to nursing home deaths but could not for a lack of money.

Republicans in the Michigan Senate want to offer $1.25 million in grants for county prosecutors who pledge to investigate Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state health department regarding nursing home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was not made immediately clear why local prosecutors would need additional funding to launch an investigation, or whether lawmakers knew of local officials who wanted to investigate the correlation of state policy to nursing home deaths but could not for a lack of money.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/25/michigan-whitmer-nursing-home-republicans-investigation/6998501002/

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