Biden administration snuck $90 million to Planned Parenthood by using ghoulish code word, says GOP senator



U.S. Senator Jon Ernst (R-Iowa) recently obtained access to Biden-era Small Business Administration communications revealing a "potential cover-up obscuring $90 million in taxpayer funds Biden officials gifted to Planned Parenthood," America's largest abortion provider and a leading supplier of sex-rejection hormones.

According to the pro-life lawmaker, Biden officials at the SBA — allegedly operating under the direction of former top SBA lawyer Peggy Hamilton — used the code word "Benghazi" to refer to discussions of Planned Parenthood and its receipt of forgivable COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program loans in the wake of congressional objections to those very loans and demands for greater transparency.

'Just when we think the Democrats’ extremism can’t get more shocking.'

The use of a wholly unrelated term — the name of the Libyan city where four Americans were savagely murdered by Islamists in 2012 — is believed to have been employed strategically to ensure that future congressional or public record requests wouldn't turn up the relevant and possibly damning documents regarding the funding of Planned Parenthood, a potential violation of the Federal Records Act.

"What does Benghazi have to do with Planned Parenthood? It appears the Biden SBA used it as a code name to hide the $90 million in taxpayer funds they gifted to the abortion provider," Ernst said in a statement on Tuesday.

"This potential cover-up demands answers."

In her letter asking acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to open an investigation into the matter, Ernst raised the possibility that the Biden White House may have been involved in the alleged effort to conceal official federal records and highlighted numerous emails sent by Hamilton in which "Benghazi" appears to have been used as a stand-in for the abortion giant.

In one instance, Hamilton made clear her intended meaning, writing, "Can I schedule a meeting so we can decision Benghazi (Planned Parenthood)?"

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"Recipients and respondents in the SBA email chains knew Planned Parenthood was not in or even remotely related to Benghazi, yet by continuing the email chain and scheduling meetings, it appears several Biden political appointees, and some SBA employees, were knowingly concealing or attempting to conceal their records relating to Planned Parenthood," Ernst stated in her letter.

She added, "With the records detailed here, and many more I’ve obtained, perhaps now we know why the Biden administration did not want to share its Planned Parenthood records with Congress."

"Just when we think the Democrats’ extremism can’t get more shocking, we see the lengths they’ll go to in protecting the Big Abortion industry," Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement. "They knew letting Planned Parenthood help itself to taxpayer-funded COVID loans was illegal — so they tried to cover their tracks using, of all things, the national horror of Benghazi."

These revelations come just months after the SBA issued letters to 38 affiliates of Planned Parenthood demanding proof that they were eligible to receive millions of dollars in PPP loans. The agency noted that affiliates found to have provided fudged or false eligibility certifications may face "severe penalties, including repayment of the loan, ineligibility for loan forgiveness, and possible referral for civil or criminal penalties."

SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said in a statement, "Planned Parenthood Federation of America was never eligible to receive a dime in pandemic-era relief from taxpayers. As part of the review under way, not only will we expose the Planned Parenthood affiliates who took advantage of the American people — we will take every necessary step to force every bad actor to pay them back."

Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Liberals seized majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023 — their first majority on the Badger State's high court in 15 years. That majority was firmed up with Justice Susan Crawford's win last year following the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history.

Wisconsinites dashed conservative dreams of a more balanced court on Tuesday by increasing the liberal stranglehold over their state's high court in a landslide election.

'We will keep fighting for our courts because they are that important.'

With over 95% of the votes in, Wisconsin Court of Appeals judge and former Democratic state legislator Chris Taylor had secured 60.1% of the total. Her Republican-endorsed opponent, Wisconsin Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, secured 39.8% of the total vote.

Abortion was a key issue during the race. Taylor, a former policy director for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, is, after all, a hardline abortion activist.

The 58-year-old liberal authored a bill in 2017, for instance, that claimed "every woman has the fundamental right to choose to obtain a safe and legal abortion." The bill, which failed to pass, would have barred the state from preventing a woman from procuring an abortion "at any time during her pregnancy" if deemed necessary to "protect her life or health."

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Taylor, who was endorsed by various pro-abortion groups, also celebrated after the state supreme court invalidated Wisconsin's 1949 law that banned most abortions.

Taylor reportedly said last year that she would not recuse herself from a case just because it dealt with abortion.

Lazar, who previously enjoyed the support of pro-life groups and called the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs "very wise," accused Taylor of being a "judicial activist." Taylor, in turn, claimed that her opponent would bring "an extreme, right-wing political agenda to the bench," reported the Los Angeles Times.

In addition to pushing the abortion agenda during her time in the state legislature, Taylor also championed curbs on the Second Amendment, demanding universal background checks, gun purchase waiting periods, and other so-called gun safety measures.

Whereas Taylor raised over $6.2 million over the course of her campaign, Lazar netted only around $1.2 million, reported the Courthouse News Service.

"The fight is not over," Lazar said in her concession speech. "And that we will keep fighting for our courts because they are that important."

Moving forward, the court will be skewed 5-2 for liberals. NBC News noted that it could get even worse: Next year, liberals could potentially pick up another seat on the bench as conservative Justice Annette Ziegler is not running for a third term.

Taylor, who will begin her 10-year term in August, is taking the seat of retiring Justice Rebecca Bradley, a Republican-aligned conservative justice who helped strike down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' order to postpone an election because of COVID-19 and condemned lockdown measures.

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