Lawmakers: Trump officials overruled Pentagon on $700M pandemic loan for trucking firm

USA Today

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Trump administration overruled Pentagon officials to approve $700M COVID loan: House report

Yellow Corp. called the House oversight panel's report 'unsubstantiated, and indeed demonstrably false.'

The Washington Post

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Trump officials overruled Pentagon to approve pandemic loan, emails show

A House subcommittee report found that White House and Cabinet officials pushed for $700 million in aid for the trucking firm Yellow Corp.

WION

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Trump officials awarded $700 million pandemic loan despite objections

The $2.2 trillion pandemic relief package Congress passed in 2020 included a $17 billion pot of money set up by Congress and controlled by the Treasury Department to assist companies that were considered critical to national security 

Bloomberg

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Lawmakers: Trump officials overruled Pentagon on $700M pandemic loan for trucking firm

UPI

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Democrats accuse Trump administration of improper $700M COVID-19 aid loan

The Trump administration improperly overruled career Defense Department officials' recommendations not to provide a $700 million loan to a trucking company as part of coronavirus relief in 2020.