Report: Senator Ted Cruz got $35 million for billionaire fracking donors in last COVID-19 relief aid
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Just as President Donald Trump criticizes pork in the current COVID-19 relief package, The Wall Street Journal reports that Senator Ted Cruz helped tweak the aid program to get $35 million for Texas billionaire fracking brothers in the last COVID-19 relief package.
The brothers, Dan and Farris Wilks have been prominent, longtime contributors of Ted Cruz.
Increase payments to the people, get rid of the “pork”. https://t.co/jq82qFIyUs Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2020
ProFrac Holdings owned by the Wilks brothers applied for the loan and received the pandemic aid for $35 million, just as the company was going on a shopping spree, buying small oil and gas companies, The Wall Street Journals Ted Mann and Brody Mullins reports. A critical factor in the loan application was Cruz