The measure, which delivers on an earlier request from President Biden, is likely to face steep resistance from spending-wary Republicans on Capitol Hill.
President Biden during a reception celebrating Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House on April 4. The White House and Senate Democrats proposed new legislation Tuesday that would help combat pandemic aid fraud. Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping, roughly $1.
The bill is authored by Sen. Dick Durbin , the majority whip; Sen. Gary Peters , who leads the chamber’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; and Sen. Ron Wyden , the chairman of the Finance Committee. The trio of lawmakers coupled their proposed new spending with additional powers for federal law enforcement officials, who would gain more time to investigate crimes targeting certain pandemic relief programs.
“Bad actors got their hands on money that was meant to help our communities get through what was an incredibly difficult time,” Peters told reporters, adding the proposal would help the government “get back stolen funds.”The legislation follows four years after the U.S. government first marshaled its historic response to the coronavirus pandemic, adopting a series of aid packages that totaled more than $5 trillion in federal aid.
At the height of the pandemic, scammers targeted the nation’s unemployment insurance program, stealing the identities of real people to obtain benefits they did not deserve, according to a year-long investigation by The Washington Post, the Covid Money Trail. Last year, federal officialsand names of the dead, obtaining low-interest loans that were supposed to help companies maintain their payrolls during the economic crisis.
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