To be fair, we (the Legislature on our behalf) wanted the federal dollars.
Federal dollars always come with strings attached.
And it usually takes an audit before anyone notices that we are not in compliance.
We used to buy groomers and tractors using NRTP funds.
Then the first Trump Administration during an audit discovered that we were in violation of an existing requirement that those all be made with US source steel.
We could still buy tractors, but not groomers, so the whole system changed to support the groomers... looking at our winters, not exactly the smartest move.
Long run... this will probably be more of a hassle then it is worth.
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