February 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The federal Small Business Administration (SBA) withheld from the public communications with Planned Parenthood over economic aid money improperly sent to the abortion giant last year, newly-unearthed emails reveal.
Last summer, the U.S. Treasury Department and SBA revealed that the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), created by the $2 trillion CARES Act legislation enacted in the name of COVID-19 relief, had given six-figure or higher loans to no less than 43 Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. Taken together, Planned Parenthood affiliates received somewhere between $65.8 million and $135 million from PPP.
Now, the Daily Caller reported that, via a Freedom of Information Act request, it has obtained from the SBA “heavily redacted” emails between the agency and Planned Parenthood affiliates discussing Republican demands to know how that money was sent to the abortion giant in the first place, although the redactions obscure the nature of those discussions.
One unredacted portion, from May 18, 2020, does show an SBA employee claiming that final eligibility determinations “are the responsibility of the applicant and the lender,” and that if “other eligibility criteria is met then the submission (of an unidentified recipient) may be eligible.”
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