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He's here. He's here. Now broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the

bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building.

We've once again made contact with our leader, Mike Lovend.

Welcome it is to the Markovins show Ben Ferguson filling in tonight for the great one really

and honored always feeling for him and nice to be with you.

We've got a lot to talk about tonight, including the House Coronavirus oversight panel,

has just come out asking five different companies to return loans meant for small businesses.

That's right, the House Oversight Committee,

News Select Coronavirus Oversight panel, has now sent officially five different letters to companies

today, asking them to return the loans they received from the Paycheck Protection Program, also known as PPP.

This was obviously set up during the pandemic to aid struggling, keyword, small businesses.

The letters have now asked each of the companies to, quote, immediately return the loan, given out under the program,

so that these funds may be used to support truly small businesses that are struggling to survive during the coronavirus crisis,

the move which stands as the first official action.

Taken by the newly created oversight panel comes amid an outcry over how the funds have been distributed.

With some loans going to chain restaurants, one of them we saw was Ruth Krustekhaus,

which took a beating public opinion wise, then you had Shake Shack giving their money back and the list goes on and on.

Then you had publicly traded corporations that had hundreds of millions of dollars in their bank accounts that got these loans.

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