Jared Moskowitz calls for probe of billions in errant COVID spending under Donald Trump

As Republicans move to investigate federal COVID-19 spending under President Joe Biden, freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz is offering a suggestion to his GOP colleagues: Don’t forget to look into mismanagement by Biden’s predecessor.

During a Wednesday meeting of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Moskowitz — who ran Florida’s Department of Emergency Management during the first year of the pandemic — agreed on the importance of identifying pandemic waste, fraud and abuse.

To do that properly, he said, investigators should start when the pandemic started, which was under former President Donald Trump.

“COVID was not a two-year event; it

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