My company technically could have paid our employees if we didn't take the money, but we'd have to cancel 90% of our R&D projects, slash operations, etc etc. So

My company technically could have paid our employees if we didn't take the money, but we'd have to cancel 90% of our R&D projects, slash operations, etc etc. So that still doesn't really mean anything, unless the intent was "if you literally could not make payroll after liquidating equipment / canceling all operational expenses," which I hope was not the case.