House lawmakers accused Planned Parenthood of improperly taking millions of dollars

Planned Parenthood improperly took tens of millions of dollars’ worth of government loans intended to help businesses during the coronavirus, according to a group of Republicans who want to see the organization investigated.

House lawmakers accused Planned Parenthood of unlawfully using the Small Business Administration’s COVID-response program, the Paycheck Protection Program, to obtain millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. Reps. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R., Mo.) and Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) wrote that the Committee on Small Business is calling for the Department of the Treasury and the Small Business Administration to investigate the organization’s actions.

“We insist that the SBA and the Department of the Treasury investigate 1.) the distribution of these loans in violation of the relevant affiliation rules and 2.) whether Planned Parenthood violated the law,” the lawmakers wrote in a Friday letter….

(Excerpts from the Washington Free Beacon)