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The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says (apnews.com)

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More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.

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[–] half_fiction 1 points 2 years ago

Remember when the Democrats tried to insist on oversight for the PPP loans but the Republican were like, "naw"? ....

And I'm over here with my student loans having grown 25% after a combination of unemployment deferment and several years of making income-based payments. Cool cool cool.