Millionaire House candidate blasts federal relief, but took $154,000 pandemic bailout
Mike Erickson promises to ‘stop the reckless tax-and-spend schemes’ after taking PPP funds.
By Josh Israel - October 25, 2022Mike Erickson promises to ‘stop the reckless tax-and-spend schemes’ after taking PPP funds.
By Josh Israel - October 25, 2022Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a congressional candidate in Oregon, also claims the American Rescue Plan ‘hurt the American people.’ Meanwhile, her business accepted more than $1.3 million in forgiven PPP loans.
By Kaishi Chhabra - October 21, 2022The Pennsylvania Senate Republican nominee claims loans from the Paycheck Protection Program were a wasteful ‘blank check,’ despite owning stock in businesses that received them.
By Josh Israel - October 10, 2022Republican House candidates say government relief spending is wasteful — but their companies have benefited from the Paycheck Protection Program.
By Josh Israel - June 22, 2022Arizona’s Jim Lamon ran a company that got $2.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program funds in 2020.
By Josh Israel - March 28, 2022President Joe Biden’s stimulus package sent out more than $400 billion in funding to small-business owners to keep them afloat in the first year of his presidency.
By Josh Axelrod - February 22, 2022The restaurant industry has been among the hardest hit by the pandemic.
By Associated Press - May 03, 2021More than half the money allotted under the Paycheck Protection Program under Donald Trump went to big businesses.
By Associated Press - March 09, 2021Many owners desperate for a relief loan didn’t receive one until the last minute.
By Associated Press - February 22, 2021Mitch McConnell is prioritizing Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation over critical relief for his own constituents.
By Daniel Boguslaw - October 14, 2020Several of the organizations have been designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
By Josh Israel - July 07, 2020According to a report released last week, a huge number of the nation’s Black-owned businesses have shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Economic stimulus funds that were intended to keep minority-owned small businesses alive did not get to them in time or at all, leaving their owners with no other options. Some 440,000 of the […]
By Josh Israel - June 16, 2020Democrats say they fear the Treasury Department has favored large, well-funded companies over smaller businesses in underserved communities.
By Associated Press - June 15, 2020More than 200 businesses trading on the stock market received at least $750 million in rescue financing from the government.
By Oliver Willis - April 27, 2020Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday evening that there were no plans to lift the rules.
By Associated Press - April 22, 2020They point to a study that shows a disparity in the number of small-business loans processed in red and blue states across the country.
By Emily Singer - April 17, 2020