Massachusetts must pay feds $2.1B after mistakenly using pandemic funds to cover unemployment benefits | 21 Jan 2025 | Massachusetts must pay the federal government $2.1 billion over the next 10 years to resolve a debt after the state under former GOP [RINO] Gov. Charlie Baker's administration mistakenly used federal pandemic funds to cover unemployment benefits. Current Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, and her deputies released details on Monday of a settlement they reached with the outgoing Biden regime last week in which the state will repay most of the money it owed because of the error, the State House News Service reported. In 2023, Healey announced that her administration uncovered that the prior administration improperly used about $2.5 billion in federal pandemic relief funds to cover unemployment benefits that should have been funded by the state.