TheHill.com Alaska tribal groups race to spend COVID-19 relief money before deadline

Alaska tribal groups race to spend COVID-19 relief money Tribal groups that represent Native Alaskans are racing to spend half a billion dollars in federal coronavirus relief payments ahead of a December deadline after a delay that tribal leaders say could Reid Wilson TheHill

Tribal groups that represent Native Alaskans are racing to spend half a billion dollars in federal coronavirus relief payments ahead of a December deadline after a delay that tribal leaders say could become catastrophic for communities now at the epicenter of the pandemic’s latest wave.

Those groups, called Alaska Native Corporations, have only recently begun receiving money allocated by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed into law in March 2020 by then-President Trump. ...