Washington Post —

The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus payments to almost 1.1 million dead people totaling nearly $1.4 billion, Congress’s independent watchdog reported Thursday.

You’ll be glad to know that the breakdown was caused by the fact that the Social Security Administration has death records, but the Treasury Department does not, and apparently the two of them had a tiff of some sort because cross referencing them was just too damn much trouble. Gee, if the government just had some manner of machine on their desk that could cross-reference data. You know, with a screen so they could see it.

The report makes clear how, in the mad dash to pass legislation to prop up an economy in free-fall in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, mistakes were made.

Mistakes were made? Well, Honey, that pretty much sums up the Trump presidency.