Feds Forgive a Million in Pandemic Loans to Top Anti-Vaxxers

The Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to help small businesses survive the pandemic. The feds instead granted free cash to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine empire.

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