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On the recordFebruary 16, 2022
we saw, when we responded to the pandemic, how the big banks who were handling the PPP program took care of their concierge clients and left our small businesses and our minority businesses basically hanging.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters criticizes big banks for neglecting small and minority businesses during the PPP program.

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