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

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More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's 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.

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[–] RedditExodus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Biden has two "band-aid" fixes that I'm aware of.

The first as you mentioned is the student debt relief which doesn't address the root cause of the problem that colleges can charge exorbitant fees to 17 year olds who have no concept of financial responsibility.

The other band-aid is the pardoning of non-violent marijuana offenders. I'm all for these people getting their lives back but it's 2023 and marijuana is still fucking illegal in the United States even though most of its citizens and most of its states have decided that it shouldn't be illegal.

I don't get Biden. He talks a big game but he can't seem to make any meaningful changes because he's too busy losing the gun control war.