Twenty-seven GOP senators sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr asking that he investigate and accusing the Planned Parenthood affiliates of knowingly applying for loans for which they were ineligible.
The loans, totaling about $80 million to Planned Parenthood centers according to
Planned Parenthood says"independent," local health centers applied for and received the loans under the rules of the CARES Act. Letters sent to Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington and Planned Parenthood of Delaware from the Small Business Administration, Dozens of Republican members of Congress signed onto another letter requesting the Small Business Administration conduct its own investigation. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who chairs the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, called for an investigation"into how these loans were made in clear violation of the applicable affiliation rules and if Planned Parenthood, the banks, or staff at the SBA knowingly violated the law, all appropriate legal options should be pursued.
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