the now, this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud.st yes just yesterday, wete learned tht nearly four hundred department of homeland security employees took pandemiarly 400c unemploymt even though they were working. but my friends, this is justinyc a teeny tiny fraction of the massive in brazen coviden theft that has occurred since d the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who s in chargeh of overseeing the distribution of the relieributionf has calleh the biggest fraud inbigges a generation. t frau it was the theft of asc as 80 billion dollars, or about 10% of the eight hundred billion dollars that was handed out in that paycheck protection program. now,in tha remember, that s on l the 90 billion to four hundredio billion believed to have been stolen from the nine hundred billion covid unemploy payment relief program. that s a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the tidal wave of inflatiotle n tha
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hey, everyone, and welcome to a special edition of gutfeld. so i m sure you figured out that i m filling in foe i r gre. what you ll never figure out is where he is. at least that s what the guy i hired told me. anyway, today is, national cheeseball day. that s right. it s a day dedicated entird meee to jesse waters. here s a crazy story. a brazilian woman wheeled the corpse of an elderly man into a rio janeiro bank to tryrl to get him to cosign on a loan. ma but how did she get the ida to pretend a dead guy was aliveo ? courtney love says taylor gets is not important and not as interesting as an artist. in response, taylor swift said, at least i didn t kill my husbant ind, john wayne bobbitt, the man whose wife famously chopped off his , has had all ten toes amputated due to health problems. he blames on drinking contaminated water. i don t want to shame, kings but i m starting to think this guy s just into itha. so as you ve probably heard, if you watch this chann
get started today. we are now just hours away from the house taking its final vote on president biden s landmark $1.9 trillion covid relief legislation. the final passage tomorrow expected along party lines. of course doubtful any republicans will support it. the president says he ll sign the bill into law as soon as it gets into his desk. stimulus checks will be in the hands of needy americans in the next few weeks. and queen elizabeth saying she s saddened at meghan and harry bombshell accusations. we are likely hours away from president biden s massive covid relief bill passing. that means $1,400 checks to struggling americans, billions of dollars for vaccines and covid testing. as biden once said to the former president barack obama, this is a big eff ing dealing. this is the key piece of legislation they knew they wanted to they didn t have to scale down the scope and size. it remains a $1.9 trillion investment. it did lose some pieces. it lost the $15 minimum wage.
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