CARES Act

Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee said tax cuts and deregulation are needed to help small businesses recover in the wake of coronavirus.

Some business owners are having difficulty “reopening” because their employees would rather collect funds through the Cares Act PPP.

Sen. Cotton led colleagues in a letter to Attorney General Barr calling for an investigation into $80 million in PPP loans Planned Parenthood applied for and received.

CVS Health announced it is giving back the $43 million it received in coronavirus relief funds from the government.

Colorado State has offered $1,500 Chinese virus aid checks to hundreds of illegal alien students that are currently enrolled at the university. The university claims that it elected to help its illegal student population during the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic because they are not eligible for federal aid.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to punish Michigan for mailing absentee ballot applications to all state voters ahead of the election.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has introduced legislation that will defund states and localities providing American taxpayer-funded coronavirus relief money to illegal aliens. 

House Democrats blocked a motion on Friday to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving stimulus payments included in the Democrat phase four coronavirus bill. 

Georgetown University has announced that it is granting raises to all of its graduate student assistants just weeks after accepting $6.1 million in federal coronavirus relief. Other wealthy institutions, such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, rejected federal aid in April after facing pressure from President Donald Trump and the public.

Republican congressmen complained on Wednesday that the first deed by the recently established Democrat-led House Select Coronavirus Subcommittee was to “beat up” on blue-collar workers rather than China’s contribution to the spread of the lethal virus across the world.

The White House confirmed plans to distribute $11 billion to states to help fund testing. “We’ve done a tremendous number, and that number is accelerating even quicker,” the official said.

Democrats have delayed legislation, made layoffs more attractive than hiring, and shamed public companies out of applying for PPP.

Three progressive senators released the details of their Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act on Friday, which proposes to give most Americans $2,000 per month, ending three months after the Department of Health & Human Services declares the public health crisis over.

The National Association of Scholars, a non-profit advocacy group for American professors, has called on universities and colleges to cut back on administrative bloat before they accept federal coronavirus relief. American universities and colleges added approximately 500,000 highly paid administrative jobs between 1987 and 2012.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which boasts an endowment of $3 billion, announced this week that it will accept $10 million in federal coronavirus relief. Wealthy universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have rejected millions of dollars in taxpayer funds in April after facing pressure from President Donald Trump and the public.

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is cracking the whip on Democrat House members, encouraging committee chairs to finish outlining their demands for the next coronavirus relief measure — a measure the speaker has already signaled will feature Democrat Party agenda items like universal vote-by-mail.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) introduced bills this week that was designed to block the flow of federal aid to wealthy universities. In April, Ivy League institutions like Harvard and Yale came under intense pressure to reject funds from the CARES Act, a coronavirus relief program passed by Congress in March, based on their massive endowments.

Columbia University has yet to announce whether it will accept $12.8 million in federal coronavirus relief that it is eligible for under the CARES Act despite its $11 billion endowment. Several other Ivy League institutions, including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, have already announced that they will reject federal funding following pressure from President Donald Trump and the general public.

Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) legislation to restrict universities with endowments larger than $10 billion from coronavirus aid has garnered strong support in both chambers of Congress.

Northwestern University announced this week that it will reject $8.5 million in federal coronavirus aid that it is eligible for under the CARES Act. In April, President Donald Trump joined the public in criticizing wealthy institutions like Harvard University, which boasts an endowment of $40 billion, for accepting federal coronavirus aid.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this month established a so-called select committee with the stated purpose of conducting oversight over the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. In an interview with “The Jeff Poor Show” on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN on Wednesday, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the committee was not necessary given the already-existing oversight elements of the CARES Act. 

President Trump is facing a lawsuit over a portion of the $2 trillion CARES Act, which extends cash relief to U.S. citizens but prevents those without a valid Social Security number, including illegal immigrants — as well as individuals filing with a non-citizen spouse — from receiving the cash benefit.

Cornell University announced this week that it will accept $12.8 million in federal coronavirus relief despite mounting public pressure to reject the funds. Several Ivy League institutions, including Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, announced last week that they would reject the federal funds after pressure from both President Donald Trump and the American public.

President Donald Trump blamed Democrats on Monday for delayed state unemployment benefits, noting he preferred to send Americans the money directly.

CNN’s Jake Tapper declined to ask Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday’s State of the Union about her role in delaying the extension of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for half a month. Instead, he asked her whether she had made too many concessions to Republicans.

A spa owner told her staff she qualified for more than $200,000 in stimulus loans, but staff knew they would be making less than what they would under unemployment.

The public health crisis is crushing America’s small business community. Economic disruption sparked by government restrictions and consumer precautions have left entrepreneurs grasping for a financial lifeline. Fortunately, the Trump administration and Congress have extended one.

USC, which boasts an endowment of $5.5 billion, announced this week that it will accept $20 million in federal Chinese virus relief. Ivy League institutions including Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania announced this week that they will reject federal aid following pressure from President Donald Trump and the general public.

The University of Pennsylvania announced on Thursday that they will reject nearly $10 million in federal coronavirus relief funds after a wave of public pressure on wealthy institutions to reject public assistance. The University of Pennsylvania currently boasts an endowment of $14.7 billion. UPenn joins Princeton, Yale, and Harvard in rejecting the federal funds, although Harvard first tried to keep the federal money.

Princeton University announced on Wednesday that it will reject a $2.4 million federal bailout that it was set to receive under the CARES Act. Ivy League institutions, many of which boast multi-billion-dollar endowments, have been criticized by both President Donald Trump and the public for accepting millions in federal bailout funds.