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Dec 22, 2020
While the approval of a new COVID-19 relief bill is good news to most U.S. residents, there’s one group who believes it “falls short” of helping them: the country’s 11 million restaurant and bar employees.
“When we ve been asked by the government to change the way we do business, our elected officials need to help us stay in business,” reads a statement released by the Independent Restaurant Coalition. “It’s clear Congress wants to help us and we gave them a plan to do that. This legislation isn’t it.
Although the relief bill includes funding for the Payroll Protection Program to help small businesses, restaurant officials say it’s not enough for the food and drink industry. The coalition has been pushing for separate legislation that would provide $120 billion exclusively for restaurants and bars.
WASHINGTON â The $900 billion COVID-19 relief package making its way through Congress includes an end to surprise medical billing, capping off a two-year bipartisan campaign Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and colleagues have been pursuing.
The reform made its way into the 5,600-page bill and Hassan said thatâs a testament to how much the congressional leadership and President Donald Trump wanted this achievement to be in one of the final acts of lame-duck Congress in 2020.
During a telephone interview Monday, Hassan said the final product was similar to the bill she shepherded through the Senate a year ago with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La.
Updated Dec 22, 2020 | 17:56 IST
A US Postal Service grant: Congress agrees to convert a $10 billion loan approved in March into direct funding for USPS without requiring repayment. What s in the US COVID-19 bill? Unemployment, $600 checks, three martini meal deduction
Washington: US congressional leaders said on Sunday they had reached agreement on a $900 billion package to provide the first new aid in months to an economy hammered by the novel coronavirus pandemic, with votes likely on Monday.
Here s what is in the package, according to a summary released by House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and interviews with several congressional aides who provided additional details:
Late on the night of December 21, after months of inaction, the U.S. Congress moved to pass the bill to provide relief for Americans. The 5,000 page bill provides $600.00 to single persons earning up to $75,000.00 and $1,200.00 for married couples earning up to $150,000.00. The 5,000 page bill was delivered to Congress two hours before the vote was held. We are going to call this movie “Pass the Bill to find out what’s in it, Part 2”. If Part 1, was a really bad movie (ObamaCare), Part 2 is an abortion wrapped in a clusterfeck of a movie. It’s more about the Green New Deal than about relief for the aggrieved.