Lee Administration holding on to $1B in federal funds
Gov. Bill Lee last week announced a $200 million program to help 28,000 small businesses recuperate from the pandemic. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press file)
The Lee Administration is holding out hope it can use about $1 billion in CARES Act money to replace lost revenue, spending only about a fourth of $2.3 billion the federal government has sent Tennessee since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
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Bill Lee Steve Cohen David KustoffSam Stockard
Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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