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Originally Posted by Heyitsrick

The "why" has already been reported:

"On Thursday, a Treasury spokesman said Mnuchin’s position reflected concern that publishing “loan-level” data with borrowers’ identities would risk disclosing proprietary information about millions of small businesses, and the salaries of sole proprietors and independent contractors. That’s because PPP loan amounts are calculated using the applicants’ payrolls."

Now, will the court(s) agree with this privacy assertion, or will they allow the release of the recipients information? Well, that's what courts are for.

There is no "need to know". Under that argument We would all have a "right" to know exactly how each of us spent our stimulus checks.