Treasury Says Alaska Native Corporations Eligible For Coronavirus Relief Money

Mealey's (April 24, 2020, 12:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Because Alaska Native corporations are considered “Indian tribes” in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, they can receive some of the $8 billion set aside for tribes in the act, and the Indian tribes challenging that decision will not be irreparably harmed by the “diminution of funding they stand to receive,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says in an April 23 response to the tribes’ bid for injunctive relief in Washington federal court (Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. v. Steven Mnuchin, No. 1:20-cv-1002, D. D.C.)....