COVID-19 in Indian Country
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.
The Kiowa Tribe will not use its CARES Act funding for per capita payments, Chairman Matthew M. Komalty said.
As ordered by a federal judge, the Trump administration submitted a status report about its efforts to distribute the rest of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund promised to tribal governments. It's not going so well.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to submit another status report about its efforts to distribute the rest of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund promised to tribal governments.
The Department of the Treasury’s administrative record (AR) in ongoing litigation over the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund promised to tribal governments was submitted in federal court on May 22, 2020. The AR is divided into 14 sections, according to the index submitted in court. Almost every section contains just one document but section 10 […]
Tribes are being asked to submit additional information in order to secure the remaining $3.2 billion in coronavirus relief funds promised to their governments.
A team of researchers released the results of its study dissecting the Department of the Treasury’s formula for distributing first-round CARES Act funds to Indian Country.
On Monday, May 18, 2020, at 3:30 PM EDT the U.S. Department of the Treasury will join NAFOA and NCAI for a forum discussion on the Coronavirus Relief Fund.
Ready for round two? Tribes have to submit more information in order to claim their shares of $3.2 billion in coronavirus relief that has yet to be distributed by the Trump administration.
Lynn Valbuena, Chairwoman of the Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations, issued a statement in connection with the Department of the Treasury's handling of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund.
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 […]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury made a number of important announcements on the Payroll Support Program under Title IV of the CARES Act.
Tribal governments -- and only tribal governments -- will be in line for another $20 billion in coronavirus relief under a new bill introduced in the U.S. Congress.
A federal judge on May 11, 2020, declined to order the Trump administration to "immediately" distribute the entirety of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund that was promised to tribal governments more than a month ago.
The Daily Treasury Statement continues to show much of the coronavirus relief fund is going to tribal governments.
The Department of the Treasury and IRS announced that nearly 130 million Americans have received Economic Impact Payments, worth more than $218 billion, in less than five weeks.
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.
The federal government has distributed about $3.4 billion in long-awaited coronavirus relief funds to tribal nations, following delays that put Trump administration at the center of yet another COVID-19 controversy.
The Department of the Treasury is in the process of distributing a portion of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund to tribal governments.
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?
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