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FILE PHOTO: Oklahoma National Guardsmen wait to sanitize a residents room during a decontamination mission at a longterm care facility, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease , in McAlester, Oklahoma, U.S. April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
Henry Connelly, a spokesman for House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, added: “It is alarming to see the Trump administration giving precious taxpayer dollars to unscrupulous entities while so many hospitals and health care workers on the frontlines of the battle against coronavirus are desperate for resources.”
“While we cannot comment specifically on any work other than what has been publicly announced, I can tell you that we regularly perform reviews of the department’s administration of programs, including the distribution of funding,” Harris said. The funds came from the $2.3 trillion CARES Act passed by Congress to blunt the economic toll of the pandemic, which has killed more than 64,000 Americans and thrown at least 30 million people out of work.
The lawyers who spoke to Reuters declined to identify their specific clients, citing confidentiality rules.
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