Posted on 03/27/2025 6:40:20 PM PDT by bitt
Despite federal law expressly prohibiting it, national abortion chain Planned Parenthood appears to have pocketed millions of dollars in “Paycheck Protection Program” COVID relief funds, and now Congress wants answers.
U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky) report they have “asked the Small Business Administration (SBA) to share how the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) unlawfully received millions of dollars in funding from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and had 34 loans forgiven by the Biden administration.”
“Ernst and Paul have repeatedly demanded answers over how the funding was approved, and loans were forgiven despite PPFA being ineligible to receive PPP funds but were stonewalled at every turn by the Biden administration,” a statement from Ernst’s office reads.
“On May 19, 2020, SBA notified a number of PPFA affiliates that they had wrongfully applied for 38 PPP loans totaling more than $80 million dollars. SBA determined that these local affiliates of PPFA were ineligible for PPP loans under the applicable affiliation rules and size standards and that the loans they received should be returned. Despite this determination, the SBA, under the Biden administration, approved further loans in 2021 totaling nearly $40 million,” wrote the senators.
“Over the years, we’ve repeatedly sought out this information. During a Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing on March 24, 2021, we questioned then-Associate Administrator of SBA’s Office of Capital Access, Patrick Kelley, about the new information suggesting Planned Parenthood affiliates had received second draw loans despite the agency’s previous determination that these entities were ineligible. Mr. Kelley testified that the SBA had not reversed the longstanding application of affiliation rules or changed any rule related to affiliation. Following this, we sent multiple letters on April 15, 2021, May 10, 2021, May 20, 2021, and again on April 26, 2022, requesting further information. However, SBA failed to provide the required information,” the senators continued.
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With alittle help from their friends.
DEFUND them already.
Maybe with a new Justice Department some of the Deep State will finally face justice.
Planed Parenthood has for decades been a revolving door of money flowing from the Fed to PP to Democrats.
It should have been shut down long ago but Republicans in power were willing to look the other way for ‘bi-partisanship’. In other words ‘you ignore my corruption and I’ll ignore your’’s’
Grifters and Gangsters, not Patriots and Revolutionaries. My how far the Democrats have fallen. Jefferson and Jackson must weep every night. Of course when the Biden’s genetics are AI analyzed the conscience gene will be missing. As will a lot of other politicians, like Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer Mitch McConnell et al.
The government was working very hard to get people to sign up to those programs. I received multiple pitches.
The Democrats control the District of Columbia judicial system thanks to decades of apathy from the Republicans.
Democrats have packed the courts with hardcore Democrat activists while the Republicans have filled positions with squishy moderates who too often side with the hardcore leftist judges.
In other words, if you want to clean up Washington DC, you have to clean up the DC court system.
Start fraud investigations and collection procedures.
I don’t think you can just chalk up Republican’s lack of action to apathy.
The deeply embedded corruption in our government could not go on for this long with simple apathy on the Republican leadership’s part.
There has to be active participation in the Republican leadership.
“ There has to be active participation in the Republican leadership”
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