NEW: Multimillionaire Tim Sheehy Took COVID-19 Relief He Campaigns Against
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Friday, October 27, 2023
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Helena, MT – Multimillionaire Tim Sheehy raked in COVID-19 relief from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) for his company Bridger Aerospace – despite Sheehy repeatedly decrying COVID-19 aid as wasteful spending on the campaign trail.
Once again, Sheehy refused to answer direct questions about his company and did not “address specific questions about the ARP money.” Read more:
HuffPost: Montana GOP Candidate Took The 'Government Fiat' Money That He Campaigns Against
By Chris D’Angelo
October 26, 2023
Tim Sheehy, the Montana businessman who is vying to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, received a $210,000 grant from Democrats’ American Rescue Plan — a federal COVID-19 relief package that Sheehy has repeatedly condemned on the campaign trail.
In March 2022, [Bridger Aerospace] was awarded $210,000 from the American Rescue Plan’s Workforce Training Grant Program, which provides funding to businesses to train employees.
The grant, part of $1.5 billion in American Rescue Plan funding allocated to Montana, has not been previously reported. Since launching his Senate bid in June, Sheehy has repeatedly decried what he views as wasteful spending by the Biden administration, including the $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package.
In an interview with Montana radio station KGVO shortly after announcing his campaign, Sheehy said COVID taught his state that the federal government “is not the solution to our problems.”
Sheehy’s campaign did not address HuffPost’s specific questions about the ARP money.
That Sheehy is benefitting from federal aid that he now argues is driving inflation is just the latest example of him and his company double-dipping on partisan issues.
Bridger has repeatedly promoted itself as a leader in the fight against climate change and planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, securing tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts along the way. Meanwhile, Sheehy has toed the Republican party line on climate, railing against the so-called “climate cult.”
He also consistently slams the federal government, his company’s biggest client. As HuffPost reported, Bridger reported revenue of more than $46 million last year — 96% of which came from federal contracts. That same year, Sheehy earned nearly $5 million in salary and bonuses as the company’s CEO, and his stock in the company is valued at more than $50 million.
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