By: Ted Dabrowski, Mark Glennon and John Klingner
Embedded below are a set of searchable databases that provide the estimated allocation of the $360 billion in direct government aid to states, counties and cities under the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. The remaining stimulus includes funding for schools and other programs, for which detailed data is not yet available.
The $360 billion is split as follows: State governments are set to receive $230 billion in direct and capital project grants, county governments will receive $65 billion, and municipal governments will receive the other $65 billion.
The source of the data is the Congressional Research Service, as distributed by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Please note that the numbers below are preliminary and still subject to change.
Note to users: Search experience is best on desktops. When searching for individual counties/cities, make sure to click the magnifying glass icon to execute your search. For mobile users, slide data tables to the left if allocation data is not visible.
CITY ALLOCATIONS
COUNTY ALLOCATIONS
STATE ALLOCATIONS
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
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PPF has a fair point. According to Wikipedia, gross fed tax revenues 2019 IL were 162B out of total 3562B. That is 4.5% of federal revenues, and according to these figures IL is getting aggregate 3.8% of total federal payout (broken down as: 3.4B/65B= 5.2% City; 2.5B/65B= 3.8% County; 7.7B/230B=3.3%State.
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Disgusting that blue states are getting more funds but commies gunna commie.
California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois are the top 5 states that are getting funds. It’s a weird coincidence that those same states also have the 5 largest economies in the USA. Those states make up over 40% of the entire national economy and yet it looks like those states are only receiving 32% of the state aid. New York, California, and Illinois make up 27% of the economy. So yeah, it makes perfect sense that blue states receive the bulk of the funds. If anything, those large blue states are getting short changed to take care of the… Read more »
What happened is exactly what we predicted here. A bailout tailored only to the few cities and states that need it wouldn’t fly in Congress, so they just flooded the entire nation with obscene amounts of cash whether needed or not. That kept the objections minimal. It served not only to bail our IL, at least for a year, but also served as part of a broader Dem goal of mass federalization, which we and others have also written about. There certainly was no red state welfare because they didn’t need it; it was more like a bribe. At the… Read more »
Looks like PPF turned of CNN for a couple of minutes to post his typical bull shit nonsense. Hey PPF I think your Mommy is calling you for lunch! Grill Cheese Mmmmm!
I don’t want my federal tax dollars going to “fix” anything in any other state than my own. If California needs updates in their infrastructure, that state should pay for it themselves! And we should not see $1 of federal funds going to state pension plans!
Every man for himself? I love it——theoretically at least. Apparently you and I want no more state focused relief at all for anything—hurricanes, tornadoes, fire, bombings, inrastructure, or economic disaster for any kind for single state or regional state purposes. Back to survival of the fittest. Hurrah! Let the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Let God sort it out. Semper fi.