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Theaters and music venues are still waiting on Covid relief funds approved in December CNN 2 hrs ago By Katie Lobosco, CNN © Heather Fulbright/CNN The Anthem, a music venue in Washington, DC, closed for the pandemic in March 2020 and has not yet reopened. They were the first businesses to close and will be some of the last to reopen, yet owners of independent theaters and live music venues have been waiting nearly four months for a $16 billion federal emergency grant program to launch. The funding for what s known as the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program was approved by Congress in December as part of a sweeping $900 billion Covid relief package. In mid-March, the Small Business Administration finally announced that it would launch the application portal on April 8 but it crashed within hours due to technical problems and remains offline.

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