{"id":6050,"date":"2020-06-02T21:54:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T01:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2020-06-02T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T01:56:34","slug":"cares-act-litigation-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/06\/02\/cares-act-litigation-11\/","title":{"rendered":"CARES Act Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Department of Treasury in Washington, D.C., is seen from barricades installed amid #GeorgeFloyd protests at the White House. Photo by Indianz.Com (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Trump administration will be delaying payments from the second round of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund, a senior official announced in a court filing on June 2, 2020.<\/p>\n

Tribes were told to expect payments from the remaining $3.2 billion this week. But Daniel Kowalski, Counselor to Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, told a federal judge that the money won’t going out as planned.<\/p>\n

The reason, according to Kowalski, is a significant number of tribes have submitted “incomplete” and “incorrect” information. The Department of the Treasury has been reaching out to 336 tribes, a process that is expected to conclude on June 3. Additionally, 57 tribes had yet to submit data.<\/p>\n

“Because of the surprisingly large number of incomplete and\/or incorrect submissions, Treasury expects that the timeline of its allocation determinations and payments will necessarily be moved back by approximately one week,” Kowalski states in the sworn declaration<\/a>.<\/p>\n