{"id":33613,"date":"2025-03-13T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=33613"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:35:42","slug":"senators-demand-documents-on-how-much-covid-19-cash-planned-parenthood-illegally-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/senators-demand-documents-on-how-much-covid-19-cash-planned-parenthood-illegally-received\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators demand documents on how much COVID-19 cash Planned Parenthood illegally received"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>By:  Tyler O&#8217;Neil, originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2025\/03\/07\/exclusive-senators-demand-documents-how-much-covid-19-money-planned-parenthood-illegally-received\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 7, 2025, The Daily Signal<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL\u2014Two U.S. senators are demanding documents from the Small Business Administration regarding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how much COVID-19 relief aid<\/a>\u00a0Planned Parenthood chapters received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., sent the letter Friday to Kelly Loeffler, the SBA\u2019s administrator. The letter concerns funds from the Paycheck Protection Program, a creation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020, which provided forgivable loans to small businesses struggling with economic disruption from the COVID-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cNot a single tax dollar should fund abortions,\u201d Ernst\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/author\/tyler-oneil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told The Daily Signal<\/a>. \u201cThe\u00a0Paycheck\u00a0Protection\u00a0Program was designed to help Americans struggling during the pandemic, not to\u00a0go to ineligible recipients fueling abortion-on-demand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe Biden administration obstructed our investigation of potentially illegal applications of PPP loans to Planned Parenthood entities, and we are confident the Trump administration will provide the transparency the American people deserve,\u201d&nbsp;Paul, a medical doctor, told The Daily Signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In May 2020, the SBA under Trump notified affiliates of Planned Parenthood that they were ineligible to receive Paycheck Protection Program funds due to federal law preventing the funding of abortion and due to the large size of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The letter faults the SBA\u2019s efforts to hide information during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe Biden administration stonewalled my oversight efforts at every turn and prevented the American people from learning how Planned Parenthood cashed in on COVID,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2025\/02\/26\/usaid-funded-pet-apps-fashion-companies-designer-furniture-ernst-reveals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ernst told The Daily Signal<\/a>. \u201cNow that Administrator Loeffler has ushered in a new era of transparency at the SBA, I look forward to working with her to uncover the truth\u00a0and\u00a0stop the flow of these funds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Planned Parenthood affiliates had wrongfully applied for 38 PPP loans totaling more than $80 million, according to the May 2020 SBA letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">After President Joe Biden took office, the SBA approved loans to Planned Parenthood affiliates totaling nearly $40 million. While Biden had long championed the Hyde Amendment, the legislation preventing federal funds\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/07\/28\/dont-buy-lefts-spin-abortion-transgender-interventions-ndaa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from bankrolling abortion<\/a>, he reversed course during the 2020 Democratic primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">According to the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, the Paycheck Protection Program lost at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2025\/02\/26\/restoring-trust-public-health-preventing-waste-fraud-national-emergency-assistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$64 billion to fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>Tyler O&#8217;Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Tyler O&#8217;Neil, originally published March 7, 2025, The Daily Signal FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL\u2014Two U.S. senators are demanding documents from the Small Business Administration regarding\u00a0how much COVID-19 relief aid\u00a0Planned Parenthood chapters received. 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