The Trump Administration provided more than $850,000 in Payroll Protection Program from the coronavirus relief program to five groups prominent in the anti-vaccination movement, raising questions about the criteria used to determine which organizations got aid, the Washington Post reports.

The National Vaccine Information Center, Mercola Health Resources, the Informed Consent Action Network, the Children’s Health Defense and the Tenpenny Integrative Medical Center have a history of spreading false information about vaccines and more recently, about the impact of the coronavirus.

“Lending money to these organizations so they can prosper is a sickening use of taxpayer money. These groups are actively working to undermine the national covid vaccination drive, which will create long-term health problems that are felt most acutely in minority communities and low-income neighborhoods,” said Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

The Children’s Health Defense Co., founded by prominent anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr., says its not against vaccines, but its mission is to question the safety of vaccines, and it has questioned the safety of the coronavirus vaccines due to the speed with which they were developed.

Providing funding to these and other anti-vaxxer groups helps promote conspiracy theories regarding the safety of the vaccine–as well as many debunked conspiracies about the spread and dangers of the coronavirus–as the United States tries to get people inoculated to stop the spread of the virus.

Distribution of PPP monies was primarily the responsibility of the Small Business Administration, which approved more than half a trillion dollars in loans.  Many of the loans have come into question, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to televangelist Joel Osteen’s church, conservative mudslinger Project Veritas, and NFL quarterback Tom Brady (who made $15 million in NFL salary alone in 2020).