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A sheet of uncut $100 bills is inspected during the printing process at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 24, 2013. More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large pandemic-relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Gangs used pandemic aid to rake in money for crimes; weak screening opened big opportunity

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on the Small Business Administration's mission by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

SBA should be tasked only with providing capital to small businesses

By Gene Marks

A sheet of uncut $100 bills is inspected during the printing process at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 24, 2013. More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large pandemic-relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Dilawar Syed, president of the software company Freshdesk, speaks during a Tech Stands Up rally outside City Hall in Palo Alto, Calif., March 14, 2017. The Senate has confirmed the highest-ranking Muslim official in the U.S. government. Dilawar Syed was confirmed Thursday, June 8, 2023, as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration in a 52-42 vote. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Senate confirms highest-ranking Muslim in gov’t after earlier GOP blockade

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Web pages used to show information for collecting unemployment insurance in Virginia, right, and reporting fraud and identity theft in Pennsylvania, are displayed on the respective state web pages, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Zelienople, Pa. Massive fraud in the nation's unemployment system is raising alarms even as President Joe Biden and Congress prepare to pour hundreds of billions more into expanded benefits for those left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

$5.4 billion in pandemic loans were paid to suspicious Social Security numbers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Planned Parenthood facility is seen in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Planned Parenthood offices are among the more of 150 statewide abortion clinics that will be listed on a publicly-funded website. The website is part of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's pledge to make California a sanctuary for women seeking abortions. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Planned Parenthood was entitled to pandemic loans: inspector general

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Store For Rent sign is displayed at a retail property in Chicago, on June 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) **FILE**

Foreign fraudsters broke feds’ firewall to steal billions in pandemic loans: Audit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland, looks at federal prosecutor Kevin Chambers, right, after appointing him to be the Justice Department's chief pandemic fraud prosecutor, during a meeting of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. The U.S. Secret Service recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic funds to the Small Business Administration, Friday, Aug. 26. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Secret Service recovers $286M in stolen pandemic loans

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk past closed Theatres, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) **FILE**

Feds fumble COVID-19 relief for theaters, concert hall operators

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Shoppers pass a theater closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

SBA suspends application portal for shuttered venue relief program

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, Isabella Casillas Guzman attends a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing to consider her nomination to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration on Capitol Hill, in Washington. The new head of the Small Business Administration expects to make changes at the agency that she says will enable it to further help small companies devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool, File)

New SBA head plans changes at agency; focus now is COVID-19

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG - Associated Press

President Biden toured Smith Flooring Inc. in Chester, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday and met with owners Kristen and James Smith. Smith Flooring was one of the businesses that received a Paycheck Protection Program loan last year. Mr. Biden said the PPP program needs more oversight. (Associated Press)

More than 4,000 borrowers received duplicate PPP loans in 2020, according to IG report

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

An inner perimeter anti-scaling fence is around the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate confirms Isabel Guzman to lead small biz agency

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

President Joe Biden visits W.S. Jenks &amp; Son hardware store, a small business that received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden visits businesses to highlight changes to loan program

By AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, arrive to attend a virtual roundtable with participants from Black Chambers of Commerce across the country to discuss the American Rescue Plan, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, at the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Administration pledges more support for minority businesses

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 13, 2020 file photo, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh talks about the postponement of the Boston Marathon during a news conference, in Boston. President-elect Joe Biden has selected Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as his labor secretary, choosing a former union worker who shares his Irish American background and working-class roots. The 53-year-old Walsh has served as the Democratic mayor of Boston since 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Boston mayor, RI governor among Biden adds to economic team

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 5, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump poses for a photo after signing the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks to accept their applications. Or, they were disadvantaged by the program's terms. Data from the Paycheck Protection Program analyzed by The Associated Press show many minority owners desperate for a loan didn’t receive one until the PPP's last weeks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Minority-owned companies waited months for loans, data shows

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG and JUSTIN MYERS - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 26, 2020 file photo, Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a face mask as he urges people to wear them to fight the spread of the coronavirus during a news conference in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A member of Newsom's office staff tested positive for COVID-19 this week and contact tracing has begun, the office said in a statement Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. The staff member had not interacted with Newsom or with staff that routinely interacts with the governor, the statement said. Separately, a state employee who works in a space shared with some staff from the governor's office also tested positive for COVID-19 but the person also had not interacted with the governor or his close staff, the office said. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

Gavin Newsom companies got $3 million in coronavirus relief loans

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 22, 2018, file photo shows the Plumpjack Wine &amp; Spirits store in San Francisco, part of the Plumpjack Group collection of wineries, bars, restaurants, hotels and liquors stores. Companies affiliated with Gov. Gavin Newsom received nearly $3 million in loans designed to help small businesses survive the pandemic, more than eight times the amount originally reported, according to newly released information from the federal government. Nine businesses tied to Newsom's PlumpJack Group split the nearly $3 million in loans through the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program, according to new figures released last week. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Calif. governor’s companies got $3 million in relief loans

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Dec. 28 deadline for loans for Mississippi Feb. flood damage

Associated Press