Klobuchar highlights funding to build 3 new Minnesota veterans homes
By FOX 9 Staff
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar highlighted federal and state funding that will go towards construction of three Minnesota Veterans Homes. (Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs)
(FOX 9) - Sen. Amy Klobuchar stopped by the Minneapolis Veterans Home campus Sunday to call for federal funding for veterans’ homes hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
That funding is part of the American Rescue Plan Act, which includes $80 million in federal funding that will go towards helping homes buy PPE, rollout vaccines and pay overtime costs to staff during the pandemic.
That money, and $32 million in state funding, will help the VA build three new veterans' homes in Montevideo, Bemidji and Preston, Minnesota.