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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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[–] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Too little oversight you say?

Remember that time when Dems would only vote to pass this with the condition of oversight? We even had someone ready to do the oversight!

And then Trump fired them, oops definitely not intentional