In December, a Nevada legislative committee learned that the state still hasn’t burned through a quarter of the federal money it received from Congress during COVID. In fact, a good portion of the money ended up directed to projects that had little or nothing to do with COVID. Recall that the city of Las Vegas spent federal pandemic funds on raises for employees. As of December, Nevada still has $700 million in unspent pandemic money, the Nevada Independent reported this month. None of this even touches on the massive fraud that was endemic in federal COVID relief efforts such as the Paycheck Protection Program and expanded unemployment benefits.