Democrats tried to throw funding into the coronavirus relief packages for abortion provider Planed Parenthood. Republicans put the kibosh on that but as it turns out, it doesn’t matter. PP exploited the PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and hauled in $80 million dollars that should have went to small businesses. Yes, this is illegal and yes, the government is trying to get those funds back, but the real point here is that PP tried to deliberately steal funds they know they weren’t entitled to from legitimate struggling businesses.
If you thought PP was only shitty for killing babies, it turns out they are shitty across the entire spectrum.
Fox News reports:
Thirty-seven Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received a total of $80 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” has learned — and now the federal government wants the money back, saying the affiliates should have known they weren’t eligible for the coronavirus stimulus payouts.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is reaching out to each involved Planned Parenthood affiliate explaining that affiliates of larger organizations with more than 500 employees aren’t eligible for PPP distributions, Fox News is told. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PFFA) alone has had more than 600 employees.
Planned Parenthood in Washington D.C. got $1,328,000. Another Planned Parenthood in the Los Angeles area received an astounding $7.5 million.
There are two absolutely insane things going on here. 1) PP already gets hundreds of millions of federal funds every year and 2) PP said they would never accept federal funds because “Orange Man Bad.”
PPMW’s request for money from the Trump administration came just months after the affiliate’s president and CEO, Laura Meyers, promised to turn down federal funds.
“Planned Parenthood is never going to allow the Trump-Pence administration to bully us into withholding critical health information from our patients,” Meyers said last August, after the White House banned Planned Parenthood clinics from making abortion referrals if they wanted to continue receiving federal funds. At the time, Planned Parenthood vowed to give up federal funds entirely, rather than comply with the order.
Keep in mind that all of these Planned Parenthood affiliates made the effort to file for these federal finds they are not eligible for. It’s not like the feds were blasting cash to everyone with a t-shirt cannon. PP went out of their way to get their baby-killing hands on our tax dollars.
The good news is that the federal government saw what the ghouls were doing and put an immediate end to it. Even better, the doctors of death can be fined and/or jailed for fraudulently applying for PPP funds.
The SBA warned more “severe penalties” were possible, beyond mandatory repayment. In particular, incorrect or false eligibility certifications by PPP recipients could result in criminal or civil sanctions if the SBA determined borrowers made knowingly false statements, the SBA letter read.
Liberals were pissed when big companies like Shake Shack and Ruth Chris’s Steak House got their hands on coronavirus relief funds, but there has been no outrage on the left at Planned Parenthood hauling in $80 million intended for small businesses. Most companies that should have never gotten money have agreed to return it. So far it looks like Planned Parenthood intends on keeping their ill-gotten gains.
