Planned Parenthood cheats small businesses and the taxpayer

The Paycheck Protection Program, PPP, was designed to help small businesses survive the government mandated societal shutdown.

Yet Planned Parenthood received $80 million which should have gone to small businesses with little in the way of assets.

Every year PP rakes in around $1.7 billion and it had $1.9 billion in assets. That's hardly a "small" business.

None the less at least 37 PP affiliates requested and received tens of millions of dollars even though they don't qualify based on the law which excluded organizations with PP's type of governance and affiliation structure as well as the fact that PP exceeds the number of employee cap.

PP knew that was the case since they stated:

"The bill gives the Small Business Administration broad discretion to exclude Planned Parenthood affiliates and other non-profits serving people with low incomes and deny them benefits under the new small business loan program."

So there's clear evidence that PP intentionally and deliberately did something that was illegal.

It's time to make PP return the money at the very least so it can be given to truly small businesses who are in dire straits due to the China virus pandemic.