Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva today said that Goldman Sachs, one of the nation’s largest investment banking firms, should immediately repay the $13 billion in public funds it received last year under the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), and that the money should be used for job creation rather than as part of a recently announced $17 billion end-of-year bonus package for company executives. “This money came from the same taxpayers who are now struggling in a bad economy, and the last thing we should do with it is further reward people who contributed to the problem,” said Grijalva, co-chair of the 83-member Congressional Progressive Caucus. “There is no excuse for spending billions of hard-earned dollars on lavish corporate bonuses when ten percent of Americans are out of work, especially when the money in question could now be used to improve their situation.”