Democratic lawmakers released a report alleging that top Trump administration officials had awarded a $700 million pandemic relief loan to a struggling trucking company in 2020 over the objections of career officials at the Defense Department, the New York Times reports.
The loan was given out after Defense Secretary Mark Esper certified that the company’s work was essential to national security, something that Defense officials had contested.
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