Joe Biden: Use Stimulus As Intended or We’ll Embarrass You. (Like find their website number)?

Vice President Joe Biden is warning that if states don’t use federal stimulus money as intended, the Obama administration may take the money back or launch a public campaign to embarrass them.

Biden, appearing Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” will be overseeing implementation of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan. Biden says the money “cannot be squandered” and warns that states will be held accountable for what they do with the money.

Some Republican governors have criticized the plan as wasteful and several have said they may reject some of the funds.

If states don’t use the money as intended, Biden says the government in some cases can withdraw the money. In other cases, he says, the government may “use the television and the radio and the media to embarrass them for them not doing what they’re supposed to do.”

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February 25, 2009 · Filed Under Joe Biden


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