Tesla doesn't need govt funding, they built a coast-to-coast supercharger network years before and have been continuing to build.
The charging station funding is to help GM and Ford, they can't figure out how the charging thing works, and they don't want to compete fairly, so my tax dollars and yours, they go to help these legacy carmakers.
Well, mostly from other automakers paying Tesla for credits, as mandated by various governments' legislation. But the transactions didn't directly involve government/tax dollars.
Vegas casinos could also buy credits instead of paying taxes, so there's at least that. And of course, some of those credits were undeserved (remember the battery replacement swindle they pulled?)
But even if it was all pure "get other companies work around regulations", those regulations were created to reduce future costs to people, and the public coffers. By subverting them, in spirit, if not in letter, Telsa made profit not just by selling cars, but also by selling our future, something rarely accounted for.
The charging station funding is to help GM and Ford, they can't figure out how the charging thing works, and they don't want to compete fairly, so my tax dollars and yours, they go to help these legacy carmakers.