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As small businesses await new US aid, it’s too late for some Sarah Trubnick is starting to make peace with a gut-wrenching reality: She may never reopen The Barrel Room, her beloved 5-year-old restaurant in San Francisco’s financial district. The sweeping $900 billion pandemic relief package that Congress has approved contains billions in aid directed specifically at struggling small businesses like Trubnick’s. But even if she gets the $350,000 she figures she needs before the end of January, Trubnick can’t afford to reopen right away. Her business won’t be viable until her regular ...

As small businesses await new US aid, it's too late for some by Joyce M. Rosenberg And Paul Wiseman, The Associated Press Posted Dec 22, 2020 3:49 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 22, 2020 at 3:58 pm EDT Problem Solvers Caucus co-chair Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., left, tells Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M., right in red, how much they will miss her next Congress as their caucus speaks to the media about the expected passage of the emergency COVID-19 relief bill, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional leaders have hashed out a massive, year-end catchall bill that combines $900...