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Pentagon Redirected Pandemic Funds to Defense Contractors: Report

posted by martyb on Thursday September 24 2020, @10:28AM   
from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Pentagon redirected pandemic funds to defense contractors: report:

The Pentagon redirected most of its $1 billion in pandemic funding to defense contractors who exchanged the money for jet engine parts, body armor, dress uniforms and other military needs, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

[...] Congress instructed the $1 billion in the CARES Act to go to Defense Production Act (DPA) efforts, which permits President Trump to direct U.S. companies to manufacture necessary products, such as personal protective equipment (PPE).

Months after the funding was allocated, department lawyers concluded the money could be used for defense production, including projects that had little to do with responding to the pandemic, the Post reported. Smaller firms received more than a third of the funding for less than $5 million, but hundreds of millions of dollars went to several large companies.

At least 10 of the about 30 contractors awarded with DPA funding also received money from the Paycheck Protection Program, the Post found.

Jessica Maxwell, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense, told The Hill in a statement that the DPA funding and PPP program are not "in conflict or duplicative."

[...] Defense industry groups said the funding was needed to keep certain contractors in business during the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.

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• Re:Article tells only half the story Re:Article tells only half the story (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @11:38AM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @11:38AM (#1056091)

  Couldn't spend it on COVID hookers and still follow social distancing rules. As proud as I am of my pecker, it's not quite 6 feet long.

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• Re:Article tells only half the story (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @11:43AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @11:43AM (#1056092)

  No quite by 5' 11"

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• Re:Article tells only half the story Re:Article tells only half the story (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @12:47PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @12:47PM (#1056112)

  I was under the impression that doggy style, reverse cowgirl, and the wheel barrow, were COVID safety approved as long as you wear a mask. Missionary is definitely not COVID safe, even with a mask.

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  • Re:Article tells only half the story (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @01:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @01:08PM (#1056116)

    Unless you finish in under a minute, you'll need to do all these outside, with a lateral wind.

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  • Re:Article tells only half the story (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @01:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @01:10PM (#1056118)

    I just double-glove: I put a condom on my dick and a surgical glove over her head.
    Works so far, and I don't have to do a lot of post-coital chatting.

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• Re:Article tells only half the story (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 24 2020, @02:05PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday September 24 2020, @02:05PM (#1056138) Journal

  'No kissing': Amsterdam's red light district reopens after coronavirus shutdown [theguardian.com]

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