Posted on 12/27/2021 9:10:29 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House downplayed a statement by the U.S. Secret Service that nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs, saying that the estimate is based on old reports.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki, when asked to comment on the figure, said, “There is no new research, data, or analysis of fraud here.”
The Secret Service told The Associated Press that the estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration.
An agency spokesperson said that they were not amending a statement on their website, but did add a clarifying note to explain the figure is based on reports from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration and that the Secret Service was not producing a new report.
“There isn’t a correction to be made, we just explicitly posted on the release’s webpage the same info we discussed yesterday,” Justine Whelan, a spokesperson for the Secret Service, wrote in an email.
Psaki said “there was just an adding up” of two old reports of well-known challenges involving small business loans and unemployment insurance payments. “It’s also important to note that even those two older analyses combined payments that include mistakes in over and underpayments but it was a reference to two older IG reports.”
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100-billion here, 100-billion there, and eventually you’re talking about some real money.
If only they weren’t so.... secret.....
“ the estimate is based on old reports.”
Meaning the figure is low and the rip off is larger 🤪
Because the thieves are all Dem constituents....
Just watch the real estate listings of recent mansion sales. That could prove to be quite revealing.
“...saying that the estimate is based on old reports...”
So, it’s 10x as much, and 10% to the Big Guy and his corrupt cronies all over the world.
Well, this is the first I heard of it only today!
“ saying that the estimate is based on old reports.”
So by now it’s really double, triple or quintuple that
“...downplays...nearly 100 billion dollars...”
Translated:
“It was closer to $90 billion.”
$100 billion stolen and the rest of it was wasted.
Ha! I remember that! Was it Dirksen?
Falling back on the Clintonian “old news” bluff isn’t likely to work for an anti-charismatic President.
How ‘bout this: The President, Congress, and their staff don’t get paid until they find the $100 billion. Let’s see them downplay that.
I was wondering where all the dark monies coming into Colorado came from.
Did the CIA steal it?
No one wants to revisit the Zer0 “shovel ready” stimulus monies that got ripped off.
Now, let me see if I can remember who was put in charge of that...hmmm......
Stolen, or taken with the tacit approval of democrat administrations?
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