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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.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @05:03PM (6 children)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/congress-coronavirus-stimulus-state-local-governments.amp [google.com]
(Score: 2) by helel on Thursday September 24 2020, @05:49PM
Thank you. Still, $24 million to pay for some community college is a far cry from the $1 billion talked about here. Everything else in your linked article seems ... COVID related even if it may not be the best use of taxpayer money.
The drive through trick-or-treat program is just cracking me up. I guess the intent is to help maintain social distancing by encouraging family to stay in their cars instead of running up to all the neighbors but still, it just seems so ridiculous!
Republican Patriotism [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 24 2020, @05:59PM
Free community college for the essential workers who are risking their lives for us just sounds like danger pay for COVID to me. And that was the first example they went with...
(Score: 2, Disagree) by fakefuck39 on Thursday September 24 2020, @07:43PM (2 children)
foxnews is not licensed as a news organization. they lost that license after they made up blatantly fake shit and were taken to court. their defense to the judge was that they are an entertainment organization, and no reasonable person would interpret their information as factual. then they lost their news license.
so I believe zero of what that link of yours says, since it is not coming from a news source. posting a link to foxnews and thinking it's news is the same as posting a link to News Radio, a popular fictional TV Show, operating under the same license as the foxnews entertainment company.
oh, and of course, you are a complete retard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @08:28PM (1 child)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-news-entertainment-switch/ [snopes.com]
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-skews/ [snopes.com]
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday September 26 2020, @08:43PM
your second link says "fox won the right to lie" is false. correct - that's what I said. they did not win the right to lie. their defense was that their lies would not be interpreted by any reasonable person as fact. thank you for agreeing with me.
as far as your first link, I have no idea what meme you are talking about that is proved false.
Fox news is listed in the TV Guide as "entertainment." They are licensed by the FCC as a cable entertainment channel - as are all other cable TV news. They also broadcast OTA from local fox stations. OTA news channels have a news or entertainment classification, as opposed to cable-only programs which do not. Fox for its OTA stations does not have a news classification, hence it being listed as an entertainment show.
as far as you telling people to shut up while providing links to lightly related yet not applicable strawman arguments - that's expected. people like you do very fragile mental gymnastics and are not able to argue your point with relevant information. because you're wrong.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday September 25 2020, @03:37AM
Of course, the things in that report are at least somehow related to the purpose of the funding. Admittedly, some may not be the most efficient but they are at least minimally justified.
Unless the pentagon has some amazing plan to use jet engine thrust to blow the COVID out of the U.S., they cannot make the same claim.