Sen. John Kennedy
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Yes.
That's correct.
Mr. Secretary, I want to go back to some of your earlier testimony and be sure I heard it correctly.
The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office.
Is that right?
That is correct.
And during that short period of time, 76 days...
How much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy?
From the loan program office in loans and commitments, $93 billion.
Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years.
How do you vet and do due diligence on a loan in 76 days?
One loan.
much less $93 billion.
How do you do it?
I think it's probably pretty clear it wasn't done in many cases.
As I mentioned, I'm told
Holding back clearly in place stuff, there is lots of funds that have gone out the door and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency or how this project can actually work.
So you're telling me that the Department of Energy, in the 76-day period before their boss was going to leave office, gave or loaned money to entities that had no business plan?
Correct.
Correct.
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