All of the funding included there is funding that was provided by bills passed by Congress.
None of that was for the purpose of implementing lockdowns. I am not aware of Congress passing a bill federally to support state level lockdowns. That lockdown plan came straight from the executive branch.
However, that is another good point to mention. While this stimulus funding wasn't contingent on states cooperating with the "The US Government COVID-19 Response Plan," which the Trump administration spearheaded without needing any new laws or funding passed by Congress, it still enabled the lockdowns for the states that had them. Again, as I pointed out earlier, they never would have been able to impose those lockdowns, at least not for the duration they did and to the degree they did, without the federal government providing that safety net. And Trump championed and spearheaded that, above and beyond the executive branch actions he had already taken.
The fact remains that if North Dakota had opted to impose lockdowns on their state, they would have been eligible for federal assistance, provided directly from the executive branch (detailed in the link I just gave), in covering the cost of that. This is beyond the level of federal COVID relief spending that they got without doing that.
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