Dem DC queen mayor gives out 10k+ in “economic equity payments”. Results are as predicted.

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Mom given $10,800 in taxpayer funds for poor families spent most of it on luxury Miami trip: ‘I wanted to blow it’

A mom of three given nearly $11,000 in a taxpayer-funded program for impoverished families has admitted blowing most of it on a luxurious five-day trip to Miami — even getting a $180 glow-up to not look like a “working” mom while there.

Canethia Miller, 27, was one of 132 mothers in Washington, DC accepted last year into the “Strong Families, Stronger Futures” pilot program designed to help those living around the poverty line, according to the Washington Post.

She chose to take a no-strings-attached $10,800 lump sum, rather than $900 monthly payments — and immediately spent more than $6,000 on the trip for her, her three sons and their father.

“I wanted to blow it. I wanted to have fun,” she told the DC paper.

“[My kids] got to experience something I would never have been able to do if I didn’t have that money.”

For the trips, Miller bought 15 new outfits for her children — one for each child for each day of the vacation — proudly telling the DC paper: “Every outfit they wore was new.”

She also spent $180 getting her hair and nails done makeover, excitedly recalling how good she looked for the trip.

Then in Miami, Miller spent much of her new cash on steak dinners, new gadgets and toys for the children and a boat tour past some of the city’s most expensive mansions.

She had claimed that she needed the money because her financial situation worsened after she had her third son in the summer of 2022.

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