COVID-19 in Indian Country
Sen. Martha McSally (R-Arizona) and Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) are urging the Trump administration to give tribes more time to use the coronavirus relief fund.

'Tribes and Tribally-owned businesses from across Indian Country have been severely impacted by the economic strains brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic,' a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators told the Trump administration.

Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin issued a statement on the expansion of the Main Street Lending Program to provide greater access to credit for nonprofit organizations.

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation on June 15, 2020, filed a notice of appeal in its CARES Act lawsuit against the Trump administration.

A federal judge will hold a hearing in Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Mnuchin at 9:30am Eastern on June 15, 2020.

Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin issued the following statement on the provision of Coronavirus Relief Fund dollars to Native American Tribes.

With the coronavirus continuing to ravage tribal communities, a court hearing at 1pm Eastern on June 12, 2020, brings the focus back to one of the most heated and divisive issues in recent Indian Country history.

The Trump administration says it has worked 'long hours, including nights and weekends,' in order to distribute the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund promised to tribes more than two months ago.

A hearing in Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation v. Mnuchin takes place via teleconference at 3pm Eastern on June 11, 2020.

Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin will be testifying about Title I of the CARES Act at a U.S. Senate hearing on June 10, 2020.

Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin and Small Business Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza issued a statement following the enactment of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Flexibility Act.

Tribes in a lawsuit against the Trump administration are once again calling for the distribution of the money remaining in the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund by an "immediate and definitive date."

The Trump administration will be delaying payments from the second round of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund that was promised to tribes more than two months ago.

The Trump administration might not distribute the remaining $3.2 billion in coronavirus relief funds to tribes next week as originally promised.

Key lawmakers are calling for transparency from the Trump administration after tribes raised significant concerns about their shares of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund.

With tribes experiencing difficulties in submitting additional data for the $8 billion in coronavirus relief promised to them two months ago, the Department of the Treasury is giving them more time to do so.

A letter has been sent on behalf of every tribal government in California regarding the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund being distributed by the Trump administration under the CARES Act. The four-page letter was sent to Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin on May 12, 2020. It was submitted by the Tribal Alliance of Sovereign […]

With a portion of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund still going out to tribal governments, a federal judge will hear arguments in the CARES Act litigation at 1pm Eastern on May 8, 2020.

As tribes continue to battle the Trump administration for the coronavirus relief they were promised by their trustee, is there another CARES Act dispute brewing in America?

Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin and Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt today issued a statement after agreeing on a path forward to provide Coronavirus Relief Fund dollars to Native American Tribes.