Been reading a good amount about the massive $2.2 trillion stimulus package. People are praising Congress for getting it done so quickly, as it is pretty crazy they were able to agree on something like this so swiftly. The issue is in what really matters, which is the execution of the bill itself.
The big part of the stimulus package was the Paycheck Protection Loan (PPL) which has been under fire recentley for giving too much freedom to the banks to not be equal in their processing of applications. In simple terms, banks were processing the applications of their wealthier clients first. There's also the issue of big companies receiving the PPL, when small businesses were heavily left behind.
Real shit show.
And then Trump and Mnuchin acted surprised and offended that rich people would dare take as much free federal money as the rules allowed.
That's going to be funny scene in a movie one day.
It would go well against the scene where U.S. military troops are taught how to make their own masks out of tee-shirts while the Trump administration sends 1,000,000 N95 masks to the Israeli IDF.
Not that the IDF probably ever received all of the masks. Likely a lot of them
ended up with
guys like this.