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July 7, 2020

Congressmembers, Trump Associates Among Beneficiaries of Coronavirus Stimulus Funds
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Under enormous pressure, the Trump administration has finally begun
releasing details on who benefited from a $660 billion relief program
that was supposed to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recipients of funds from the Paycheck Protection Program include seven
members of Congress or their spouses, President Trump's longtime
personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz, Jared Kushner's family business, a sushi
restaurant at Trump International Hotel, the anti-tax activist Grover
Norquist, a number of private equity-backed restaurant chains, and a
shipping business owned by the family of Transportation Secretary Elaine
Chao, the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell. For months
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin opposed the release of these details,
claiming it was "proprietary information."


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