[A Navy Vet]

"Well said, I agree."

Thank you. The silver lining in this awful situation is that the Chi-Coms will take years to be trusted again. The lack of trade could turn their imperialistic clock back a few decades. I suspect with return of American owned production facilities through tax incentives and direct Fegov relief and increased trade with other Nations, we may come out of this stronger and with better trading partners.

An interesting point is that campaigner Trump was already talking about over-reliance of China goods. He has been proven correct with the Ch-Coms limiting or denying medical and pharmaceutical supplies exports. That will now change.

I'm curious what authority he has to use the 2 trillion already passed for incentives to our own companies to relocate as Japan is doing. Is there enough for that? Or is it all going out to paychecks for the unemployed? Who is accountable for the disbursement of that stimulus?

[jazusamo]

Who is accountable for the disbursement of that stimulus?

That's an excellent question that I hadn't thought about. The below excerpt are the key points of an article on it but it only covers the oversight for dispursement:

KEY POINTS

• The Defense Department’s internal watchdog will serve as newly named chair of The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a body created to oversee the roughly $2 trillion stimulus deal that President Donald Trump signed into law last week in response to the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus outbreak.
• Glenn Fine’s job as chair of the committee will be “to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse” of funds allocated in the law.
• Prior to joining the Department of Defense, Fine worked for eleven years as inspector general for the Department of Justice under both Democratic and Republican presidents.

Department of Defense watchdog will lead Inspector General committee for $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package