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The distribution of pandemic relief money to more than 2,900 restaurant businesses owned by women, veterans and disadvantaged people was halted last week following lawsuits by several White business owners.
U.S. SBA halts some grants under injunction in lawsuit filed by white restaurant owners
Health Biden’s Small Business Administration wants favoritism for women and minorities for COVID relief. Min Recent federal court rulings reject President Biden’s desire to discriminate in favor of women and minorities in using taxpayer money to aid businesses hit hard by COVID-19 shutdowns. The rulings support plaintiffs upset at Biden’s Small Business Administration (SBA), saying it violates the Constitution because applications for restaurant relief from women and racial minorities would receive preferential treatment, being processed in the program’s first 21 da...
AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu When the American Rescue Plan Act was passed, it contained a special program to help restaurant owners who had been placed in financial peril by the government-mandated COVID shutdowns. Administered through the Small Business Administration, the program is known as the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF). The RFF offered grants and forgivable loans to the owners of eateries who fell into that category. But the way the SBA under the Biden administration planned to roll it out contained a poison pill for many owners. Anyone could apply for the program, but businesses o...
A conservative legal group founded by former Trump administration officials secured an injunction which prevents the Biden administration from distributing COVID-19 aid based on race and sex. The post Stephen Miller’s Legal Group Wins Injunction to Halt Race and Sex-Based Discrimination in Distribution of COVID Relief Funds first appeared on Law & Crime.