Pelosi forms new select committee to oversee $2 trillion coronavirus relief package

Source: Politico | April 2, 2020 | Heather Caygle, Kyle Cheney and Melanie Zanona

“Where there’s money there’s also frequently mischief,” she says.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday announced the formation of a special bipartisan House committee to oversee the Trump administration’s distribution of more than $2 trillion in coronavirus relief funds over the next several months.

The committee is Pelosi’s most aggressive effort yet to streamline the House’s efforts to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his implementation of the massive coronavirus response law, as well as to ensure that recipients of the historic taxpayer bailout use funds the way Congress intended.

“Congress has taken an important step in meeting this crisis by passing three bills with over $2 trillion in emergency relief. We need to ensure those dollars are spent carefully and effectively,” Pelosi told reporters in a press call Thursday.

Pelosi said the committee would not only oversee the three bills Congress has passed so far to address the pandemic but also any future legislation related to the virus. Pelosi has been pushing to move ahead quickly with a fourth coronavirus response package, an idea she again pitched Thursday, noting the record high 6.6 million-plus unemployment claims reported earlier in the day.

“The panel will root out waste, fraud, and abuse and will protect against price gouging, profiteering, and political favoritism,” Pelosi said.

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