The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is awaiting to see how much money it will receive from the latest federal COVID relief bill.
President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law March 11 with $20 billion going to tribal governments across the country.
“We don’t know how the U.S. government will allocate those funds,” said Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton in his weekly blog. “My hope is that tribal citizen enrollment data will be more of a determining factor than outdated fun