# Ernst, Williams Extend Pursuit of COVID Fraudsters After Biden Dropped the Ball (Senate Small Business Committee release, Apr. 2, 2025)

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**Release title:** Ernst, Williams Extend Pursuit of COVID Fraudsters After Biden Dropped the Ball
**Date:** April 2, 2025

Titles as stated: Joni Ernst — "U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair" (R-Iowa); Roger Williams — "House Committee on Small Business Chair" (R-Texas).

Bill: SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act. The release states it extends the statute of limitations to 10 years for fraud involving the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) and Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) COVID relief programs, and notes that similar action was taken in 2022 to extend the statute of limitations for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) fraud to 10 years.

The release also references Ernst's 2023 report on "the Biden SBA's effort to discount the full extent of fraud" and a GAO report stating that SBA "failed to pursue nearly two million individuals suspected of stealing pandemic aid."