The Trump administration has acted to ensure that no funds from the new Paycheck Protection Program, set up to assist small businesses battered by COVID-19, will go to Planned Parenthood.
“President Trump is committed to ensuring Paycheck Protection Program money is used for saving jobs at small businesses, not getting the government into the business of funding abortion,” a senior administration official told The Daily Signal.
“While not all Americans share President Trump’s pro-life beliefs, there is broad bipartisan support for the idea that American taxpayers should not have to fund abortion,” the official said Wednesday night.
The Paycheck Protection Program, designed to shore up small businesses that had to close or otherwise were affected by the coronavirus pandemic, allows businesses with fewer than 500 employees to be forgiven for the principal of a government loan if they don’t lay off their employees. The employers still have to pay the interest on the loans, overseen by the Small Business Administration.
The program’s initial $350 billion fund, established in legislation passed March 30 by the House, was depleted April 16. The program received $320 billion in new funding in a bill passed Thursday by the House and signed into law Friday by Trump….
“The SB in SBA is for ‘small business,’ so SBA has regulations called ‘affiliation rules’ to define when small employers might be so closely affiliated with a parent organization that they should be considered one large employer,” the official said, adding:
“While each Planned Parenthood affiliate has fewer than 500 employees, nationwide it has over 16,000 employees. So when applying PPP’s affiliation rules neutrally, it’s clear that Planned Parenthood is one large employer and not eligible for PPP money….”
The above comes from an April 30 story in the Daily Signal.
Another reason to appreciate Pro-Life President Trump!
Amen!
It has nothing to do with being pro-life. It’s just a matter of defining and adhering to terms in legislation concerning which businesses qualify for the benefit. Other businesses with similar national affiliations, such as McDonald’s, also wouldn’t qualify for the funds.
Oh give me a break. Would pro-abortion and pro-infanticide Obama have given the baby-killing death camps a qualification? You betcha!
Doesn’t that same logic exclude Catholic parishes from receiving PPP funds? Isn’t the affiliation with a parent organization so close as to constitute one large employer? Even if you grant that each diocese is a separate corporation sole, the Archdiocese of New York and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles must have more than 500 employees each, and I know that parish workers are considered employees of the archdioceses. I see a discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.
Let’s put Trump in charge of the USCCB, to restore its Catholicity.
Peggy, you got it going on!
Trump in charge of the USCCB? No way! The man is not a Christian and most certainly not a Catholic!
Wilma…The USCCB is a disgrace. Wasn’t pro-homosexual McCarrick involved with that and most of the Bishops embraced or overlooked his abuse of young men and boys. Trump is 100% better than them to clean it up!